Download or read book Visual Studio Essential Training: 01 Exploring the Visual Studio Ecosystem written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual Studio has every tool you need to be a productive developer. But it is a vast ecosystem. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the IDE, code editors, Team Foundation Server, accounts and notifications, and personalization settings that make up the core of Visual Studio. Author Walt Ritscher provides beginners with a glimpse of the breadth of the program, and gives established pros a look at the most recent changes in 2015, including new Azure tools for building scalable applications and Blend, a complementary IDE for creating modern XAML-based applications.