What is Visual Studio.NET?
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET is an integrated development environment which is the successor of Microsoft Visual Studio 6. It eases the development process of .NET Application to great deal for Visual C#.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++.NET, Visual JScript.NET, Visual J#.NET, ASP.NET, etc The revolutionary approach in this new Visual Studio.NET is that for all the Visual Studio.NET Compliant Languages there is a single IDE, debugger, project and solution explorer, class view, properties tab, tool box, standard menu and toolbars. The key features of Visual Studio.NET IDE include:
- Keywords and syntax highlighting
- Intellisense (help completing the syntax as you place dot (.) with objects, enumeration and namespace and when you create new objects)
- Project and solution management with solution explorer that help manage applications consisting of multiple files, which is what usually happens
- Help building user interface with simple drag and drop over the form window
- Properties tab that allows you to set different properties on a number of windows and web controls
- Standard debugger that allows you to debug your program by putting break points for observing run-time behavior of the variables and objects in the program
- Hot compiler that checks the syntax of your code as you type it and report any errors present
- Dynamic Help on number of topics using Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library
- Compilation and building applications
- Execution of your application with/without debugger
- Deploying your .Net application over the Internet or on CDs
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