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Reputation:

What is an environment?

I assume this question is somewhat dumb, but I can't seem to find an answer. What exactly is an "environment" in the context of Visual Studio (or similar)?

Say, for example, that I choose my Visual Studio 2013 to be configured as a C# environment (when you first install it it gives you the option), and then create a Visual Basic form application via selecting Fle>new>Visual Basic>Windows form. What would be the difference between doing that and creating the same application in the Visual Basic environment configuration?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 150

Answers (1)

Michael Petch
Michael Petch

Reputation: 47593

The environment settings you can select (and change later) only affect the look and feel of the IDE. Think of these environments as "themes" and "skins" in other applications. These environments in Visual Studio simply alter the default look and feel of the IDE.

You can learn more about what visual changes each of the different environments makes:

For Visual Basic see this MSDN article

For Visual C++ see this MSDN article

For General Development see this MSDN article

For Web Development see this MSDN article

You'll see that each of the links will show you what changes in the IDE you can expect. Consider all the changes cosmetic. They don't alter compiling/linking.

Upvotes: 2

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