Learning C#

        Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Microsoft Cooperation. It can be used to develop various kinds of applications using Microsoft .Net Framework for the platforms supported by Microsoft. Those platforms are Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, and Windows CE. Using VS, we can develop console and graphical user interface (GUI) applications. Console applications are the applications running on windows terminal. And GUI applications are the applications which have rich user interface such as Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications and web services.

        Visual Studio makes the development process easier and faster. It includes a code editor on which developers can write source codes of the applications. It supports intelliSense as well as code refactoring. It has an inbuilt debugger. Using that, developers can debug .Net applications. Visual Studio has other inbuilt tools. It includes a forms designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer and database schema designer. So that developers can build rich applications without doing huge amount of coding. We can create plug-ins for the Visual Studio to enhance the functionality of the tool. It supports for source-control systems (like Subversion and Visual SourceSafe) so that many developers can work in a same project.
Here are the most important and useful Visual Studio 2008 features.

• IntelliSense
• Code Snippets
• Revision Marks
• Designer Improvements
• XML Support
• Refactoring
• Partial Classes
• Debugging
• Other IDE Improvements

Because of those features Visual Studio 2008 becomes one of the main Integrated Development Environment for developing .Net applications.