Section 1.6. The Development Environment

1.6 The Development Environment

The Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment provides enormous advantages to the VB.NET programmer. This book tacitly assumes that you'll use Visual Studio .NET for your work. However, the discussion focuses more on the language and the platform than on the tools.

Nonetheless, Chapter 4 provides a good introduction to the IDE in some detail. Chapter 10 returns to the IDE to examine the debugger, which will help you find and correct problems in your code.