What does it mean to build applications faster? In Visual Studio, it means taking advantage of ways to write less code and to write code faster. To make it easier to write less code, Visual Studio tools provide wizards to help you create skeleton applications that you can customize with your own code. All the Visual Studio tools support the Component Object Model (COM), and you can reuse components that you write in any Visual Studio language. Visual Studio even includes ways for you to model your application visually, and then generate application code.
To make writing code faster, all the Visual Studio tools offer visual development environments, IntelliSense® features such as statement completion, and quick access to documentation — not only product documentation, but the wealth of resources available on MSDN, the Microsoft® Developer Network.
This section looks at what each Visual Studio tool offers to support fast development. For more information, see any of the following topics in this section.