2. Introduction to the Visual C# 2005 Express Edition IDE

Seeing is believing.

Proverb

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

Intelligence ...is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri-Louis Bergson

Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn:

• The basics of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that assists you in writing, running and debugging your Visual C# programs.

• Visual Studio’s help features.

• Key commands contained in the IDE’s menus and toolbars.

• The purpose of the various kinds of windows in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

• What visual programming is and how it simplifies and speeds program development.

• To create, compile and execute a simple Visual ...

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