Housekeeping Tasks
Overview
The IDE is a one-window Microsoft Visual Studio home for the potential programmer, set before her to create C# projects. The version 2.0 IDE window has been greatly simplified over the past three years (since versions 1.0 and 1.1) to increase programmer productivity and reduce redundancy. The old 1.0 home window provided too many ways to perform similar tasks and overpopulated the presentations.
You cannot create C# projects without a C# compiler ” either the Visual Studio 2005 Home version/Professional version or the C# 2005 Express Edition. The Visual Studio Professional version occupies almost 3 GB on one s hard drive, while the abbreviated Express Edition occupies only 200 MB. The Express Edition was built for students, but it meets the needs of 80 percent of the programming community. There is little reason to purchase the full Visual Studio 2005 unless you write source code in multiple computer languages or you deal in projects written for international Internet transactions. With the full Visual Studio 2005 you also have the capability of including legacy code written in C++, Basic, and J#. The Express Edition is sold as a stand-alone compiler.
During the installation process, the Microsoft software creates a holding area at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\ Visual Studio 2005 for your projects.
Every project in this book can be built, compiled, and run with any of the three compilers (Professional, Home, or Express). However, we chose to explain the relevant features of this new compiler in terms of the full Visual Studio 2005 Home Edition because it is the type of compiler that most Microsoft-class programmers are accustomed to. If you prefer to concentrate on honing your computer software skills on only the dominant language, C#, then the Visual C# Express Edition is your best (and least costly) bet.
All three of these C# compilers use the new MSBuild format for file creation and storage within a project. MSBuild was finalized in 2004 and incorporates a system that recognizes old C# project formats from versions 1.0 and 1.1. It immediately converts them to the new version 2.0 2005 formats. Before this conversion is made, MSBuild asks the programmer if the old-format project folder should be saved in its original form. If the programmer chooses to do this, the old project is copied to a specific subdirectory in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Backup Files.
There is no mention in the IDE instructions about the powerful version 2.0 built-in project converter. You can place an old-format Visual Studio C# project into the new-format storage area and load it into the new IDE for rework , compilation, and execution. The conversion software works flawlessly and produces a Visual Studio C# version 2.0 project. So don t be afraid to load old-format Visual Studio C# projects into this new 2.0 system.
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