Appendix A. Using Visual Basic .NET in a Multideveloper Environment

The Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a whole new set of tools to facilitate team development. Theoretically, you don’t need to purchase Visual Studio .NET just to do .NET development (you can use the command-line compilers that come with the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK instead), but Visual Studio provides a rich development environment that can dramatically increase your productivity and offers tools to help manage your project’s complexity. Team development invites a whole cornucopia of management, coordination, and technical challenges. Visual Studio .NET can help. It is by far the most powerful development environment to come out ...

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