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Sudhir Chekuri
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
IDE stands for Integrated development environment. IDE is a tool used to develop applications.
Visual studio is the IDE in DOTNET. Visual studio is a product of Microsoft.
It is a not a free source. Visual studio IDE is a powerful tool that simplifies the application development. For .NET Visual studio is the only Ide using which you can develop any type of DotNET applications.
For JAVA we have number of IDE s like Edit plus, NET beans, eclipse,..
Versions of MS VISUAL STUDIO
Product name with Supported framework versions
Visual Studio - 1.0
Visual Studio 2003 - 1.1
Visual Studio 2005 - 2.0
Visual Studio 2008 - 2.0 - 3.5
Visual Studio 2010 - 2.0 - 4.0
Visual Studio 2012 - 2.0 - 4.5.2
Visual Studio 2013 - 2.0 - 4.5.2
Visual Studio 2015 - 2.0 - 4.6
Visual Studio IDE comes with features like Editor, Compiler, Debugger, Intellisense, Interpreter, Designer.
1. Editing Window
Used to design and code your .NET applications.
2. Solution Explorer
(ctrl + alt + L)
All the files in your project are explored using solution explorer under a root folder.
Double click on the file in solution explorer displays the file content in editing window.
3. Server Explorer
(ctrl + alt + S)
It explores all the sever connections.
4. Toolbar
(ctrl + alt + X)
Contains all controls used for designing your .NET applications.
You can drag and drop controls to your design pages.
automatically code is generated for that controls.
5. Properties
(F4)
It is used to modify the properties and appearances of the controls which is selected.
6. Error List
(ctrl + w+ e)
used to show the errors, warnings and messages with descriptions in the coding after compilation.
F5 is the shortcut key to start debugging and shift + F5 to stop debugging.
Intellisence
Generation of list keywords, methods,... which can be used in that context is known as intellisense.
This a special feature in MS Visual studio that helps the developers to know the methods and other properties names which they can use in that context.
Visual studio is the IDE in DOTNET. Visual studio is a product of Microsoft.
It is a not a free source. Visual studio IDE is a powerful tool that simplifies the application development. For .NET Visual studio is the only Ide using which you can develop any type of DotNET applications.
For JAVA we have number of IDE s like Edit plus, NET beans, eclipse,..
Versions of MS VISUAL STUDIO
Product name with Supported framework versions
Visual Studio - 1.0
Visual Studio 2003 - 1.1
Visual Studio 2005 - 2.0
Visual Studio 2008 - 2.0 - 3.5
Visual Studio 2010 - 2.0 - 4.0
Visual Studio 2012 - 2.0 - 4.5.2
Visual Studio 2013 - 2.0 - 4.5.2
Visual Studio 2015 - 2.0 - 4.6
Visual Studio IDE comes with features like Editor, Compiler, Debugger, Intellisense, Interpreter, Designer.
Visual Studio IDE Windows with shortcuts
1. Editing Window
Used to design and code your .NET applications.
2. Solution Explorer
(ctrl + alt + L)
All the files in your project are explored using solution explorer under a root folder.
Double click on the file in solution explorer displays the file content in editing window.
3. Server Explorer
(ctrl + alt + S)
It explores all the sever connections.
4. Toolbar
(ctrl + alt + X)
Contains all controls used for designing your .NET applications.
You can drag and drop controls to your design pages.
automatically code is generated for that controls.
5. Properties
(F4)
It is used to modify the properties and appearances of the controls which is selected.
6. Error List
(ctrl + w+ e)
used to show the errors, warnings and messages with descriptions in the coding after compilation.
F5 is the shortcut key to start debugging and shift + F5 to stop debugging.
Intellisence
Generation of list keywords, methods,... which can be used in that context is known as intellisense.
This a special feature in MS Visual studio that helps the developers to know the methods and other properties names which they can use in that context.