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Microsoft 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
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our 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 high-level view of how VS is organized, how to find the features 
you need, and how to work with windows. Finally, you’ll learn how to find the different 
application types that VS helps you build. At this point, you know that VS will help you 
build .NET applications, but let’s start off with a more detailed explanation of what VS 
will do for you.
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 command-line compiler to create 
an executable application. The issue with the text editor and command-line compiler is 
that you would lose a lot of productivity through manual processes. Fortunately, you have 
VS to automate many of the mundane tasks that are required to develop applications. The 
following sections explain what VS will do for you and why VS is all about developer 
productivity.
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