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• Visual Studio.Net

Some Useful tips for programming

 Sit facing a wall

Visual Studio .NET

• The Start Page
  • Helpful links appear on left side
    • Each has a sub screen
  • The Getting Started screen
    • Links to recent projects
    • The Open Project button
    • The New Project button
  • The What’s New screen
    • New features and updates for Visual Studio .NET
      • Downloadable code samples
      • New tools
  • The Online Community screen
    • Ways to contact other programmers

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Start Page

Empty project list

Buttons

Start Page in Visual Studio .NET, with an empty project list.

Project location (^) Project name

Description of selected project type

Visual C++ Projects folder Console Application (.NET)

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New Project dialog.

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Selected project location (^) Click to set project location Setting the project location.

Menu Bar and Toolbar

• The menu bar
  • Commands for developing and executing programs
    • Create new projects by going to File > New > Project
  • Certain menu options only appear in specific IDE modes
• The toolbar
  • Contains commonly used commands as icons
  • Used rather than navigating through menus
  • Simply click the icon to use the command
    • Some icons have down arrows that offer additional commands
    • Holding the mouse over an icon displays a tool tip
      • Tool tips briefly state what the icons are or do.

Menu Bar

Visual Studio .NET menu bar.

Toolbar

Down arrow indicates additional commands

Toolbar icon (indicates a command to create a new project)

Toolbar

Visual Studio .NET toolbar.

Tooltip

Toolbar

Tooltip demonstration.

Solution Explorer

• The Solution Explorer
  • Lists all files in the solution
  • Displays the contents or a new project or open file
  • The start up project is the project that runs when the

program is executed

• It appears in bold in the Solution Explorer
• The plus and minus boxes expand and collapse the

tree

• Can also double click on the file name to

expand/collapse

Solution Explorer

Solution Explorer without an open solution

Property pages Toolbar

Startup project Collapse tree

Expand tree

Solution Explorer with an open solution

Solution Explorer window.

Toolbox Window

Toolbox window.

Toolbox group

Controls

Scroll Arrow

Toolbox Window

Mouse over window name

Toggle auto hide Close button

Demonstrating window auto-hide.