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Visual Studio Walkthroughs

These walkthroughs introduce the important areas of the Visual Studio product. Each walkthrough discusses the development of a specific application type or major application feature using a series of steps. In most cases, each walkthrough incorporates methods or features from various parts of Visual Studio. This provides a hands-on introduction to the numerous major features of Visual Studio in a clear and ordered manner.

In This Section

  • Visual Basic and C# Walkthroughs
    Provides a list of all the Visual Basic and C# step-by-step topics that show how to create distributed Web applications, author components and controls, work with Windows Forms and Web Forms, and others. There are also links to step-by-step topics that demonstrate features of the Visual Basic language, such as how to call APIs and handle events.
  • Visual C++ Attributes Walkthroughs
    Provides a list of step-by-step topics that show how to use attributes for creating COM objects, ActiveX controls, and COM DLLs.
  • Visual J# Walkthroughs
    Provides links to step-by-step topics that show how to create distributed Web applications, author components and controls, work with Windows Forms and Web Forms, and perform data-related tasks.
  • Debugging Samples and Walkthroughs
    Provides a list of the debugging step-by-step topics that show how to debug Web applications, including: setting and removing breakpoints, viewing variables in your application, controlling execution, stepping and continuing, and attaching.
  • Smart Device Walkthroughs
    Provides instructions on how to create different types of applications and components in the .NET Compact Framework.
  • Policy Walkthroughs with TDL Files
    Provides a list of several walkthroughs that demonstrate how to create a new Enterprise Template for a distributed application and how to work with Template Description Language (TDL) to modify Enterprise Templates.
  • Source Control Walkthroughs
    A series of walkthroughs that demonstrate how to set up integrated source control services, create and manage multiproject solutions, perform shared checkouts, and merge changes.