Introduction to Visual Studio

Question 1. Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio

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Visual Studio 2005 is a complete set of development tools for building high-performance Desktop applications, XML Web Services, mobile applications, and ASP web applications.

Visual Studio 2005 provides multiple advantages in the development process. The primary advantages are.

Improved developer productivity.
Used .NET Framework 2.0.
Provide ready-made tools for built applications.
Provides an Object-Oriented environment.
Standardized by ECMA. [Editor's note: Visual Studio is not standardized by ECMA.]

Visual Studio 2005 has four editions. These are.

Visual Studio

Team System Edition: This edition is designed for a professional development organization. It is useful for customers ranging from an architect to an operations manager who needs to manage the Software Development Life Cycle (SDL) and collaborate more effectively.
Professional Edition: This edition is designed for professional developers. It is useful for the developer working all by himself or for developers working in a small team.
Standard Edition: This edition is designed for a part-time or occasional developer. It preserves the simplicity of the Express products and supports all languages and product types.
Express Edition: This edition is designed for students, enthusiasts, and hobbyists. It is used for building applications for personal enjoyment and use.

Visual Studio 2005 provides some ready-made tools for building .NET applications, such as.

Forms designer
Server Explorer
Property Window
Tool-Box
Solution Explorer
Compiler
Debuggers
Output Window

The .NET Framework is multi-lingual, in other words, it supports many types of languages. It supports more than 25 languages. Some of the languages are.

VC++
VB
C#
Jscript
XML
COBOL
Eiffel
Smalltalk
Python
Perl
VB Script and so on.

The .NET framework provides a multi-platform environment. It in other words we need to create.

Web-Based
Windows-based
Console-Based
Web-Services
Pocket PC
Gaming
Mobile Applications can be created on .NET platforms.

Question 2. Project Basic

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Definition

A project, by definition, is a temporary activity with a starting date, specific goals and conditions, defined responsibilities, a budget, planning, a fixed end date, and multiple parties involved. You know what you need to do, do it once, and that's the end of it.

That's a project. However, being hip has its disadvantages. Start a project, but only for the right reasons. Not for the heck of it.

For a project definition, look for the following aspects.

Starting date
Specific goals and conditions
Defined responsibilities
A budget (Growth)
A planning
A fixed end date
Parties involved
Documentation

A project is one of the specific activities for specific goals.

How to create a project, the following are the basic steps of a project.

Analysis
Documentation
Designing
Coding
Testing

In other words, we can say that a project is a basic practice for a person.

When we create a type of application for perfect goals, reasons, and specific use it is called a project.

A project is created step-by-step.

A project is one of the specific tasks created for special use.

A Software Project Developer uses a Cost Constructive Model "COCOMO" for the time period and cost of the project.

Question 3. Specify in depth the types of projects in the Visual Studio IDE

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Visual Studio 2005 provides some ready-made tools for building .NET applications, such as.

Forms designer
Server Explorer
Property Window
Tool-Box
Solution Explorer
Compiler
Debuggers
Output Window

The .NET Framework is multi-lingual, in other words, it supports many types of languages. It supports more than 25 languages. Some of the languages are.

C++
VB
C#
Jscript
XML
COBOL
Eiffel
Smalltalk
Python
Perl
VB Script and so on.

The .NET framework provides a multi-platform environment, in other words, we need to create.

Web-Based
Windows-based
Console-Based
Web-Services
Pocket PC
Gaming
Mobile Applications are created on the .NET platform.

But on Visual Studio 2005 C#.NET, we can create mainly three types of applications as in the following.

Console Application

A Console Application is a simple input/output application.

Console Application input is provided by a command line, the console window, files, and other sources.

Console Application output is displayed in the console window and written to files and other destinations.

For Example

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication5
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Welcome To C# programming");
            Console.WriteLine("C# is case sensitive language");
            Console.WriteLine("C# is fully object-orinted language");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Windows-based (Desktop) Application

A Windows-based application is also called a Desktop Application.

A Windows-based application is created using Windows Forms or WPF and the IDE in Visual Studio .NET 2005.

For Example

Form Design

Code

Button

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    int a, b, c;
    a = Convert.ToInt32(txtone.Text);
    b = Convert.ToInt32(txttwo.Text);
    c = a + b;
    txtthree.Text = Convert.ToString(c);
}

Class Library

A Class Library is a DLL file.
A Class Library cannot be directly run and display output but it is used by other applications.
Another application can reference a Class Library and display specific output on the screen.

Question 4. Ready-made control provided by Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005

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Solution Explorer: A solution is a collection of projects and other files that make up an application. The Solution Explorer provides an organizational view of these applications. It also provides ready access to the commands that are used for the projects. The Solution Explorer shows the structure of applications or projects in a tree view.
Property Window
- The properties window allows the user to set the properties on controls, as well as the form, without affecting or making changes in the code.
- Many types of functions are defined in a property window, for example, change the title of a form, change the name of a button, and change the color and shape of a button.
- In other words, we say that with a property window it is possible to change the properties of controls such as labels or buttons. This can be done by clicking on the control and changing the respective properties from the properties window.
Toolbox: The toolbox window displays the controls and components that can be added to the design mode of the form. However, the contents of the toolbox window change depending on the type of form the user is creating or editing. For example, if the user is adding tools onto a web form, the Toolbox displays the server controls, HTML controls, and other components that the webform may require. The toolbox contains many types of tools the user can use directly by dragging and dropping tools onto their Windows Forms form.
Server Explorer: The Server Explorer is the server management console used for opening data connections, logging on to servers, and exploring databases and system services. Using Server Explorer, the user can perform the following activities:
- View and retrieve information from all of the databases that the user is connected to.
- List database tables, views, Stored Procedures, and functions.
- Expand individual tables to list their columns and triggers.
- Open data connections to SQL and other databases.
- View information about available web services.
Output window
- The Output window displays several types of information.
- The Output window has separate tabs of Output for each tool, such as Build, Debug, Log, and Find in Files. To display the Output from a given tool, select that tab at the base of the Output window.
- The Output window is placed below the Code Editor. It displays the status messages for the various functionalities in the IDE. As shown in the following figure.
Error List: The error list window does the following:
- Displays the errors, warnings, and messages produced when the code is edited and compiled.
- Find development errors, analysis errors, and errors detected.
- The error list displays an error.
Menu Bar: The Menu Bar contains some ready-made tools and they are always displayed in .Net Visual Studio 2005. It contains:: new doc., cut, copy, paste, style, and formatting, insert table, column, drawing, and so on.
Form Designer: The Forms Designer is one of the parts of Microsoft Visual Studio .Net. The Forms Designer is used to create our website and Windows Forms page layout and page design. We need to create a different type of design for our website and Windows Forms.
Object Browser: The Object Browser allows you to select and examine the symbols available for use in projects. You can open the Object Browser from the View menu, or by clicking the Object Browser button on the main toolbar. There are three panes: an Objects pane on the left, a Members pane on the upper right, and a Description pane on the lower right. If you resize the Object Browser into a single column then the Objects pane moves to the top, the Members pane to the middle, and the Description pane to the bottom. In the Objects pane, icons identify hierarchical structures such as the .NET Framework and COM components, namespaces, type libraries, interfaces, enums, and classes. You can expand these structures to reveal ordered lists of their members. Properties, methods, events, variables, constants, and other contained items are listed in the Members pane. Details on the item selected in the Objects or Members pane appear in the Description pane.
Toolbar: The Windows Forms Toolbar control is used on forms as a control bar that displays a row of drop-down menus and bitmapped buttons that activate commands. Thus, clicking a Toolbar button can be equivalent to choosing a menu command. The buttons can be configured to appear and behave as push buttons, drop-down menus, or separators. Typically, a Toolbar contains buttons and menus that correspond to items in an application's menu structure, providing quick access to an application's most frequently used functions and commands.

Question 5. Explain and define Tabs in Visual Studio .NET 2005

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Editor Tabs

The Code and Text Editor is the word processor of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). When it is used to edit text, it is referred to as the Text Editor. When used to edit source code in a Visual Studio development language, its most common use is referred to as the Code Editor.

Editor Tabs

A list of all documents opened for editing in instances of the Code Editor is available in the Windows menu. The HTML Designer, CSS Editor, and XML Editor features of the IDE also employ this editor. The Code Editor for the language in which you are developing offers such rich features as.

Access to object properties, methods, and events at design time.
IntelliSense statement completion.
Collapsible code sections.
A Code Definition Window that displays the source code for an object or element.
A Code Snippet Inserter that lets you add ready-made blocks of model code.
Options to define indents, tabs, and drag-and-drop behavior.

Docking Tab

The Microsoft Foundation Class Library supports dockable toolbars. A dockable toolbar can be attached, or docked, to any side of its parent window, or it can be detached, or floated, in its own mini-frame window. This article explains how to use dockable toolbars in your applications.

Format Tab

This tab is used to specify Format options for the text box and the type of input mask.

Data Type: Specify a Character, Date, Logical, or Numeric data type for your text box. If you choose a value in the Value tab then ensure it is the same data type as the value specified here.
Enable at Run Time: Specifies that the text box is enabled when the form is run. This option is available for all data types and is checked by default. This option corresponds to the Enabled property.
Alphabetic Characters Only: Specifies that only alphabetic characters be allowed in the text box (no numbers or symbols). This option is available for character data type only. This option corresponds to the "A" setting of the Format property.
Make Read-Only: Prevents the user from changing the text in the text box. This option corresponds to the ReadOnly property and is available for all data types.
Select on Entry: Specifies that the text in the text box be selected when the text box has the focus. This option is available for the Character data type only. This option corresponds to the "K" setting of the Format property.
Hide Selection: Specifies whether or not selected text in the text box remains visibly selected when the text box doesn't have the focus. This option corresponds to the Hide Selection property and is available for all data types.
Display Leading Zeros: Specifies that zeros to the left of the decimal point be displayed. This is available for the Numeric data type only. This option corresponds to the "L" setting of the Format property.