User-Customizable Profiles
When you open Visual Studio .NET for the first time, the first thing you will notice is that there is no separate menu item to start Visual Basic. To create a Visual Basic application, you will need to choose Start, Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0, and then Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0. (Henceforth, I will refer to this as starting Studio or Visual Basic.)
When you run Studio for the first time, you will be presented with the Start Page, an HTML page that plays the role of IDE navigator. The menus are enabled, but before you start programming you will want to do a little housekeeping first. If you accidentally close the Start page, you can reopen it by choosing Help, Show Start Page in Studio.
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