Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide
Ebook Download | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide | Endorsed by Microsoft and written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide teaches programmers and developers new to Visual Studio 2010 how to maximize the latest release of Microsoft's flagship development environment. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up. You'll also learn how to customize the integrated development environment (IDE) itself, adding your own tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2010. This book is a great intro book for anyone that is looking to get started in programming C# or VB.NET and use the latest version of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 IDE. The author provides a great intro for anyone that has done some coding or scripting for computers in the past as well as providing help for more seasoned programmers on newer applications that they may not have any experience with. For the people that are new to any .NET programming there are quite a few chapters devoted to teaching the basics of both the C# and VB.NET language with bunches of code samples. The book is organized in a very easy to follow and logical structure that will walk you through everything you will need to get your first .NET programs up and running smoothly. For the more advanced programmers there are also chapters dedicated to some of the newer Visual Studio project types like WPF, WCF, MVC and even Silverlight. There are also chapters at the end for extending Visual Studio itself if you find that there are functions that you want to modify or automate in the IDE. The book is very clearly written and doesn't talk down to you either, just provides you the samples that you need to get the job done.