Intro to Visual Studio

We discussed many concepts about .Net framework. With Common language runtime, base class libraries and many other concepts. You can also refer the official website of Microsoft in order to have a good and full knowledge about this .Net technology. To get the full details of the .Net technology please click here. You can also download the latest version of Visual Studio 2015 Community. To download the freeware of Visual Studio 2015 just click here.

We can implement these Microsoft languages in Visual Studio. It is the Integrated development environment for Microsoft. By using this tool we can work on different kinds of applications such as Windows store applications, Windows phone applications, Windows form applications nothing but our windows desktop applications, web applications, WPF applications etc. We can develop all these applications by using this particular development tool. We should install this Visual Studio tool into our PC. So to access this particular tool we need some requirements for our computer. Our computer should be configured with more than 1 GB of RAM and minimum of 20 GB of space. We can get freeware of this tool in official Microsoft account.

So let us start how to code using this .Net framework. Microsoft designed many languages to use them in the programming. Most of the familiar languages used in .Net world are C#, VB.Net, F#, ASP.Net etc.

We choose C# language in order to program using this Visual Studio 2013. So in order to code in this Visual Studio we should need a basic knowledge of programming concepts. C# language is a combination of both C and C++. It is type safe. It follows the concepts of object oriented programming. It is mainly designed to be simple, general purpose and easy access of the classes. It borrows most of the concepts of other programming language and designed in a simple way. Programs written in C# requires .Net framework to be installed in the computer where you execute the code.  Sometimes C# is referred as .Net language because both C# and .Net framework were designed together.

C# can be written with any text editor, like Windows Notepad, and these programs can be compiled with the help of  C# Command line compiler, csc.exe, which comes with the .NET framework. Most people uses an IDE (Integrated Development Environment)Visual Studio which can be used to work on every application with respect to .Net framework. With the help this C# programming we can develop different kinds of applications like client server applications, web applications, desktop applications, database applications and much more.