As a VB 2008 programmer, you may choose among numerous tools to build your .NET applications. This approach is quite different from the world of VB6, where we had only a single IDE to contend with: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. That being said, the point of this chapter is to provide a tour of various .NET development options, including, of course, Visual Studio 2008. The chapter opens, however, with an examination of working with the VB 2008 command-line compiler, vbc.exe, and the simplest of all text editors, Notepad (notepad.exe).