SUMMARY
Although Visual Basic cannot debug your applications for you, it provides all of the tools you need to get the job done. By using the tools in the Debug menu and the IDE’s debugging-related windows, you can get a good idea about what your program is doing and what it is doing wrong.
This chapter and the others in the first part of this book described the basic pieces of the Visual Studio development environment. They described the windows, menus, and toolbars that you use to build and debug Visual Basic applications.
The next part of the book provides more detail about the steps you follow to build an application before you debug it. Chapter 7, “Selecting Windows Forms Controls,” describes the most common controls that you can use to build Windows Forms applications. It explains the purposes of those controls to help you decide which controls to use in different situations.
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