Running Visual Studio 2010 for the First Time

When you run Visual Studio 2010 for the first time, the IDE needs to be configured. It first requires you to specify one of the default environment settings, as shown in Figure A.8.

Figure A.8 Selecting a default environment setting.

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Choosing one of the development settings configures menus, buttons, and icons to provide the appropriate shortcuts according to the selected profile. A popular choice is the General Development Settings so that you can later customize the IDE according to your particular needs, but you can also consider the Visual Basic Development Settings that configures the IDE with ...

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