Visual Studio IDE from the perspective of a UNIX programmer

Question

I have been programming on Linux / UNIX for several years, but recently I had to do something in VS2008. It was hard for me to understand how VS works. Do you know any resources (preferred web pages, but books are also acceptable) that show me the big picture and explain at least some details? Examples are welcome, comparison with a typical UNIX stack is very welcome.

I do not need a language (C # / C ++ / VB / ...) link / manual; I saw some of them, and none of them seem to suggest how to work effectively with VS.

Answer 1

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Answer 4

Have you considered installing cygwin and gcc? If you want to write a console application, this may just do the trick.