Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Xx Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 a Beginner’s Guide

xxMicrosoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

This book has 13 chapters and is divided into four parts and a couple of appendixes as reference material. The following provides an overview of each section:

●	Part I: Understanding Visual Studio 2010 Essentials Chapter 1 begins with an
	explanation of what VS is, its benefits to you, and what type of applications VS will
	help you build. Hands-on guidance starts at the point of installation, giving you tips
	as to what is being installed and where it goes on your computer. Chapters 2 through
	4 are an introduction to C# and VB, two of the most widely used programming
	languages supported in VS. Notice that the titles of these chapters include “Just
	Enough,” indicating that you will learn the language features you need throughout
	this book. As you progress through the book, you’ll be exposed to all of the language
	features discussed and see how they are used. Even if you already know how to
	program, you might want to peruse the programming language chapters anyway
	because I’ve sprinkled in dozens of valuable tips that will make your coding
	experience in VS much more pleasurable.
●	Part II: Learning the VS 2010 Environment	There are a few universal tasks most
	developers perform every day, which include working with projects, debugging code,
	and manipulating data. While Chapter 5 is titled “Creating and Building Projects,”
	there is much involved when working with projects. Pay particular attention to the
	guidance on assemblies and class libraries, as they tend to become more prominent
	as your development activities progress beyond simple programs. Regardless of your
	development philosophy, the need to fix bugs has always existed and will continue
	to be important in the future. Chapter 6 is designed to help you use the many tools of
	VS to find and fix bugs. Another common task you’ll have is working with data. VS
	allows you to create databases, add tables, and much more. When the database is ready
	to use, you’ll learn how to write code that works with the database. I chose to cover
	LINQ to SQL because it’s one of the simpler database technologies, yet powerful
	enough for professional application development.
●	Part III: Building Programs with VS 2010	With the foundations of programming
	languages and a feel for the VS environment, you’ll be ready to use VS to build

applications. The .NET platform supports various technologies, and this book takes a forward-looking approach, choosing technologies that were the most recently introduced. The focus in these chapters is not to teach you everything about these technologies, which can fill entire books themselves, but rather to show you how to leverage VS in building applications. You’ll get the foundations that will give you a head start in building your own applications. Both Chapters 8 and 10 use a form of