Introducing the Start Page

Visual Studio .NET and its tools are located in the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET folder of the Program Files folder. The shortcut to Visual Studio .NET is located in the Visual Studio .NET folder on the Start menu in Windows. To get through today, open Visual Studio .NET from the Program Files, Visual Studio .NET folder. The first time the integrated development environment (hereafter referred to simply as IDE) is opened, you're presented with the Start Page, as Figure 2.1 demonstrates.

Figure 2.1. The Start Page.

The Start Page is a tabbed HTML page with three main navigation options across the top, Projects, Online ...

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