If you are a professional .NET software engineer, the chances are extremely good that your
employer has purchased Microsoft’s premier IDE, Visual Studio 2008, for your development endeavors
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio). This tool is far and away the most feature-rich and
enterprise-ready IDE examined in this chapter. Of course, this power comes at a price, which will
vary based on the version of Visual Studio 2008 you purchase. As you might suspect, each version
supplies a unique set of features.
nNote There are a staggering number of members within the Visual Studio 2008 family. My assumption during
the remainder of this text is that you have chosen to make use of Visual Studio 2008 Professional as your IDE of
choice.
Although I will assume you have a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional, understand that
owning a copy of this IDE is not required to use this edition of the text. In the worst case, I may
examine an option that is not provided by your IDE. However, rest assured that all of this book’s
sample code will compile just fine when processed by your tool of choice.
nNote Once you download the source code for this book from the Source Code/Downloads area of the Apress
website (http://www.apress.com), you may load the current example into Visual Studio 2008 (or C# 2008
Express) by double-clicking the example’s *.sln file. If you are not using Visual Studio 2008/C# 2008 Express,
you will need to manually insert the provided *.cs files into your IDE’s project workspace.
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