Summary

Visual Studio provides a full array of editors and designers. They cover the gamut of solution development activities from WYSIWYG positioning of graphical controls to finely tuned text editing for a certain language, syntax, or markup.

This chapter described how to leverage the basics within these editors and designers. It also described how the editor and designer relationship provides two complementary views of the same solution artifact, in effect working together to provide you, the developer, with the right tool for the right task at hand.

In subsequent chapters, we look at the more advanced options and productivity features available within these tools and even look at end-to-end development efforts involved in building a web application with ASP.NET or Silverlight and building a Windows application using Windows Forms or WPF.