Configuring Your Development Environment Settings

Booting the new IDE for the first time results in a dialog box asking you to choose your environment settings. As Visual Studio becomes the central tool for so many developers, testers, architects, and even project managers, it’s harder and harder to satisfy them all with a single tool. To aid in this dilemma, Microsoft has created an entire set of environment settings that are configured for the usual developer type. For instance, if you set your environment to C#, the New Project dialog box automatically highlights C# projects above other languages. Figure 2.2 shows the available environment settings options.

Figure 2.2 The Environment Settings options dialog box.

Managing Your Settings

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