The simplest way to get started with a rich tool such as Visual Studio .NET is to play around with it. Try developing a couple of kinds of applications (Web applications, Windows applications, Web services) to get a feel for the features and functionality of the tool. This section is geared for such getting-started tasks . You will use Visual Studio .NET to develop different kinds of solutions ”console applications, Windows applications, and the like. Because the focus of this section is not on the actual code that you are going to be writing but the IDE features, you will create very simple Hello World “like applications. To illustrate the multiple programming languages' support of the environment, I will be shuffling between the different supported programming languages while creating these projects. Table 5.2 shows the various project types and the programming languages supported by them. Table 5.2. Visual Studio .NET 2003 Project Types and Supported Programming Languages
Apart from the list of projects that are more focused on development of applications and services using a particular programming language, Visual Studio .NET supports a list of other kinds of projects, such as setup/installation projects. Following is a list of some of the other projects for Visual Studio .NET 2003, depending on the version of Visual Studio you have. Setup and deployment projects:
Other projects:
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