Reference (Visual Studio)

This section includes user interface reference, language equivalents, and other reference topics that apply to the integrated development environment (IDE).

In This Section

• General User Interface Elements (Visual Studio)
  Contains topics about dialog boxes and windows that are not included elsewhere in the table of contents.

• How Do I in General Development
  Contains links to procedures that explain how to perform some development tasks using Visual Studio.

• Visual Studio Help Reference
  Contains topics that describe the best ways to access Help, and also explains some of the formatting and graphics used in Help topics.

• Visual Studio Commands and Switches
  Contains information about Visual Studio commands and devenv command-line switches.

• Language Equivalents
  Contains information about language equivalents, which summarize common programming concepts by using side-by-side code examples or tables.

• Visual Studio XML Reference
  Contains topics about various XML schemas available in Visual Studio.

• MSBuild
  Contains topics about how to use the new Microsoft build platform that is integrated into Visual Studio.

• Visual Studio Error Messages
  Contains information about some of the error messages in Visual Studio.

• Product Support and Accessibility
  Contains information about how to locate customer support for Visual Studio, and also tips for increasing the accessibility of Visual Studio.

Related Sections

• Automation and Extensibility Reference
  Contains language reference topics for the IDE automation model. Includes debugging.

• Reference (Visual Basic)
  Contains Visual Basic upgrading information and the Visual Basic language and run-time reference.

• Visual C++ Reference
  Contains language reference documentation.

• JScript Reference
  Contains topics about the JScript programming language. Includes properties, methods, objects, and functions, and other elements.

• .NET Framework Reference Information
  Contains topics about the .NET Framework class library, compiler and language reference, and also ASP.NET syntax, XSD reference, and other topics.

• Application Development in Visual Studio
  Find out about designing, developing, debugging, testing, deploying, and managing applications created by using Visual Studio.