Who Should Read This Book?

Developers who rely on Visual Studio to get work done will want to read this book. It provides great detail on the many features inside the latest version of the IDE. The book covers all the following key topics:

• Understanding the basics of solutions, projects, editors, and designers

• Writing macros, add-ins, and wizards

• Debugging with the IDE

• Refactoring code

• Sharing code with team members and the larger community

• Writing ASP .NET applications

• Writing and consuming Web Services

• Coding with Windows forms

• Working with data and databases

• Using team collaboration and team systems

• Modeling with Team Architect

• Automating testing with Team Test

• Managing source code changes and builds

This book is not a language book. However, we do cover some of the new language features (such as generics) in both C# and Visual Basic. We also try to provide simple examples that can be read by developers of both languages. However, this book is purposefully focused on the tools that make up Visual Studio 2005.