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Visual Studio.NET is a very rich integrated development environment (IDE), with many features to make programming more enjoyable. In this appendix we covered the basics of using Visual Studio to edit, compile, run, and debug programs, so that you will be equipped to use Visual Studio in the rest of the book. Nonetheless, it is worth spending time to become familiar with many more of the Visual Studio features, because understanding how to use them will make your development work much easier. A project can be built in different configurations, such as Debug and Release. Visual Studio.NET has a vast array of features for building database applications, Web applications, components , and many other kinds of projects. We discuss some of these additional features in the chapters where they are pertinent.

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