Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated development environment from Microsoft used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows and web applications. It uses Microsoft development platforms like Windows API and Silverlight. Visual Studio includes a code editor with IntelliSense, a designer, and a debugger. It allows resetting settings to the default General Development Settings collection which configures Visual Studio for multi-language development and add-in creation with minimal customization.

1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2. Introduction To Visual Studio
• Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development
environment (IDE) from Microsoft.
• Visual Studio is used to develop computer programs for
Microsoft Windows superfamily of operating systems, as well
as web sites, web applications and web services.
• Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms
such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows
Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft
Silverlight and also Windows Phone Mobile Application

3. Specifying your default environment settings
• The collection of settings named General Development
Settings configures Visual Studio to match the default layout and
settings. Choose this settings collection if you develop
applications in more than one language, create add-ins, or simply
want the least amount of optimizations to the IDE.
• You can choose this collection of settings the first time you start
Visual Studio. After that you can choose it by means of the Import
and Export Settings command on the Tools menu.
• How To ?
• Open Start-> All Programs-> Visual Studio 2010-> Visual Studio
2010
• On the first page of the wizard, pick Reset All Settings, then
click Next.-> Next
• On the Choose a Default Collection of Settings page of the
wizard, select General Development Settings.

4. Specifying your default environment settings

6. Features
 Code editor (F7, Shift + F7 for Navigation from Code to Design
View )
 Like any other IDE, it includes a code editor that supports syntax
highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for not
only variables, functions and methods but also language
constructs like loops and queries. IntelliSense is supported for the
included languages, as well as for Cascading Style Sheets and
JavaScript when developing web sites and web applications

7.  Designer
 Windows Forms Designer
 WPF Designer
 Web designer/development
 Data designer

8. Windows Form Design View

9.  Debugger
 Visual Studio works with both managed code as well as
unmanaged code and can be used for debugging applications
written in any language supported by Visual Studio.
 Shortcut related to Debug and Run
• F5 - Run Console/Web/Windows App
• F10- For Line by line Debugging
• F11 -Get into Method of Other Project in Solution
• F9 -Add Debug point (Break point) at particular line
• Ctrl+Shift+F9- To remove All Debugger from solution

11.  Other tools
 Open Tabs Browser (CTRL+TAB)
 Properties Editor (F4) and Tool Box
 Solution Explorer
 In Visual Studio , a solution is a set of code files and other
resources that are used to build an application. The files in a
solution are arranged hierarchically, which might or might not
reflect the organization in the file system. The Solution
Explorer is used to manage and browse the files in a solution.

13. Solution Explorer and Properties

14. Questions ??