Using the Visual Studio Interface
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Using the Visual Studio Interface
Of course, you need to understand the language in which you’re working. A C# programmer who didn’t understand C# wouldn’t be of much use. However, you also need to understand your tools — in particular, the Visual Studio user interface, because that’s what you’re probably using. This chapter and Bonus Chapter 5 cover programming tools. This chapter takes you through Visual Studio, while Bonus Chapter 5 presents some alternatives to Visual Studio.
The material in this chapter applies to all editions of Visual Studio 2005, including Visual C# Express. I spend most of my console application programming time in the following four sets of Visual Studio windows:
- The Solution Explorer and Class View windows
- The Editor window
- The Help window
- The Debugger windows
These windows are listed in "chronological order" and not order of importance.
When writing a large program, you deal with the Solution Explorer window and then you enter C# source code in the Editor window, all the while using the Help window as an aid and Solution Explorer or Class View to navigate around your program. After you enter your program, you find errors in the Debugger window. Once a week or so, you go to the pay window to get paid, but that’s not part of Visual Studio.
Before I do anything, however, I arrange the windows the way I want them to look.
Developing Windows graphical applications introduces several more windows: the Form Designer window, the Toolbox window, and the Properties window.
 
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