
4Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide
Key Skills & Concepts
●Learn What Visual Studio 2010 Can Do for You
●Install and Choose Among Installation Options
●Understand What Types of Applications You Can Build
Your first experience with Visual Studio (VS) 2010 is often installation. As with most software, VS is rather easy to install; this chapter describes the installation process
and gives you tips to help understand available options. Once installation is complete, you’ll open VS for the first time and need to know how to navigate the VS environment; this chapter gives you a
What Is Visual Studio 2010 About?
Visual Studio 2010 (VS) is an integrated development environment (IDE); a set of tools in a single application that helps you write programs. Without VS, you would need to open a text editor, write all of the code, and then run a
Automatically Generated Code
VS includes a suite of project types that you can choose from. Whenever you start a new project, VS will automatically generate skeleton code that can compile and run immediately. Each project type has project items that you can add, and project items include skeleton code. In the next chapter, you’ll learn how to create projects, add project items, and view