SUMMARY

This chapter explained how to get started using the Visual Studio integrated development environment. It showed how to configure the IDE for different kinds of development and explained that different configurations might make your version of Visual Studio look different from the screen shots shown in this book. It explained what Visual Basic projects and solutions are, and showed how to create, run, and save a new project.

The next few chapters describe parts of the IDE in greater detail. Chapter 2, “Menus, Toolbars, and Windows,” describes the commands available in the IDE and the menus, toolbars, and secondary windows that hold them.