Visual Studio 2005 is a powerful tool with many features, to make writing programs easier.

The Start Page provides an overview of your programming environment, and a list of recent projects.

A solution is a set of related projects, and a project is a set of related code files and associated resources such as images, and so on.

Visual Studio 2005 has a number of templates that allow you to create particular types of projects, such as windows or web applications.

Among other things, Visual Studio 2005 provides “what you see is what you get” (WSYWYG) support for building, testing, and debugging graphical user interfaces (GUI).

Every window in Visual Studio 2005 can be resized and moved.

To run your application, select Start or Start Without Debugging, or press F5 or Ctrl-F5.

The Clipboard Ring can hold a number of different selections that you can cycle through.

The Find and Replace feature lets you locate text strings in the current file or other files, using normal text or regular expressions.

Bookmarks enable you to mark spots in your code so you can easily find them later.

IntelliSense saves you keystrokes and can help you discover methods and required arguments by (for example) listing possible completions to what you’re typing.

The Properties window displays properties for the currently selected item.