What Can You Build with Visual Studio?

You can build just about anything you can imagine with Visual Studio, Professional Edition, including single-user applications, Web applications, and data-centric applications. The Visual Studio tools contain many features to help you build your applications as quickly as possible.

Since it would be impossible to describe each of the many different kinds of applications you could build with Visual Studio, and since it would be easy to miss the kinds of applications that haven't even been thought of yet, this book looks at two popular types of applications and provides a survey of how each Visual Studio tool supports developing these applications. These applications are:

• Web applications.
• Data-centric applications.

For More Information   See the following topics online in MSDN Library Visual Studio 6.0.

• To skip to the survey, see Choosing the Right Tools for the Job in Chapter 2.
• To get a sense of what is meant by "Web application" and for overviews on some related technologies, see Web Applications in this chapter.
• To get a sense of what is meant by "data-centric application" and for overviews on some related technologies, see Data-Centric Applications in this chapter.