Using External Tools
Even though the Visual Studio .NET IDE contains so many features that you might even start to think it can read your mind and write your code for you, it unfortunately can't. There are some things that are either not built into the IDE by design or are better left to external tools.
Many tools are available for your use that are either installed with Visual Studio .NET or are available through third-party developers. It wouldn't be that nice if I devoted large amounts of material talking about a third-party developer tool, so this book will focus on the tools that ship with Visual Studio .NET where appropriate.
External tools are only somewhat integrated within the IDE, in that the IDE simply provides a mechanism to launch ...
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