Introduction

The release of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team Systems marks a major revision to the .NET development experience. The languages have many improvements, the Framework has a number of additions, but most of all, the tools have been significantly enhanced. Visual Studio now contains code snippets, custom project templates, refactoring, data binding wizards, smart tags, modeling tools, automated testing tools, project and task managementjust to name a few. These tools are meant to increase your productivity and success rate. This book is meant to help you unlock these tools so you realize these gains.