Using Visual C .net IDE

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Using Visual C.net IDE

• Computer and Information Sciences
• By Ed Brunjes

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Whats an IDE? What does it Do?

• IDE stands for Integrated Development
  Environment
• It allows you to create and edit a program
  package
• It allows you to build and compile the package
• It allows you to debug the package
• It tells you how badly you messed up!

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Visual C IDE Components (1)

• Workspace this is the main work area where you
  type in most of your program
• Windows show the various aspects of the
  project. You can move or delete windows as you
  like by using the sizing buttons on the Window
  title bar. You can also hide a window or windows,
  or you can group windows together.

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Visual C IDE Components (2)

• Toolbars contain short-cut buttons to common
  operations that could be selected from the menus
  (there are LOTS of them). You can add toolbars
  from the View option on the Menu Bar
• Menus Are always available and provide all of
  the actions you can do in the IDE. If you close
  a window you can reopen it using the View
  option

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The basic Visual C IDE Screen

• Visual C IDE
• The workspace area
• IDE Windows
• Toolbars
• Menus

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Workspace

• The workspace is the largest of the windows.
  This is where the code is typed in.

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Toolbars

• There are a bucket full of toolbars. These are
  collections of short-cut buttons for operations
  that can be selected from the menus on the Menu
  Bar.

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Menus

• Each item on the menu bar is connected to a
  pull-down menu. The pull-down menu has two
  types of options
• Gray options are options that are a part of the
  menu but are NOT available for this operation and
  are not active.
• Black options are options that ARE available
  and are active.