Chapter 12. The .NET Community: Consuming and Creating Shared Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Community Features of Visual Studio

• Discovering and Consuming Shared Content

• Giving Back to the Community

The .NET community is a large and diverse group. A quick look across the Internet and you will find countless bits of content and help for building applications. Microsoft has added new community features to Visual Studio 2005 that help to streamline and manage this content.

This chapter covers how developers can take advantage of the community capabilities of Visual Studio 2005. You will learn how to customize your community content to provide the right mix, how to get community support, and how to find and consume code from the greater developer community. Finally, you will also learn how to bundle your own code for sharing with the community.