Section 1.6. The Development Environment

1.6 The Development Environment

The Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment provides enormous advantages to the C# 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.