The document describes the main components of the Visual Studio IDE. It discusses the various menus including File, Edit, View, Project, Build, Format, Data, Tools, Window, and Help. It also covers the main windows of the IDE like the Toolbox Window, Solution Explorer, Properties Window, Output Window, Command Window, and Task List Window.

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The File menu contains commands for opening
and saving projects or project items, as well as
commands for adding new or existing items to the
current project.
Edit Menu
File Menu
The Edit menu contains the usual editing
commands. Among these commands are the Advanced
command and the IntelliSense command
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This menu contains commands to display any
toolbar or window of the IDE
Project Explorer Window
View Menu
Lists the forms and modules in your current
project. A project is the collection of files you use to
build an application.
This menu contains commands to display any
toolbar or window of the IDE
Debug Menu

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This menu contains commands for adding items
to the current project (an item can be a form, a file, a
component, even another project). The last option in
this menu is the Set As StartUp Project command,
which lets you specify which of the projects in a
multiproject solution is the startup project(the one that
will run when you press F5).
Build Menu
Project Menu
The Build menu contains commands for building
(compiling) your project. The two basic commands in
this menu are the Build and Rebuild All commands.
The Build command compiles (builds the executable)
of the entire solution, but it doesn’t compile any
components of the project that haven’t changed since
the last build. The Rebuild All command does the
same, but it clears any existing files and builds the
solution from scratch.

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This menu contains commands you will use with
projects that access data.
Format Menu
Data Menu
The Format menu, which is visible only while you
design a Windows or Web form, contains commands
for aligning the controls on the form
This menu contains a list of tools
Tools Menu

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This is the typical Window menu of any Windows
application. In addition to the list of open windows, it
also contains the Hide command, which hides all
Toolboxes and devotes the entire window of the IDE to
the code editor or the Form Designer. The Toolboxes
don’t disappear completely.
They’re all retracted, and you can see their tabs on
the left and right edges of the IDE window. To expand a
Toolbox, just hover the mouse pointer over the
corresponding tab.
Help Menu
Window Menu
This menu contains the various help options. The
Dynamic Help command opens the Dynamic Help
window, which is populated with topics that apply to the
current operation. The Index command opens the
Index window, where you can enter a topic and get
help on the specific topic

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Here you will find all the controls you can use to
build your application’s interface.
The Toolbox Window
 Crystal Reports
 Data
 XML Schema
 Dialog Editor
 Web Forms
 Components
 Windows Forms
 HTML
 Clipboard Ring
 General
This window contains these tabs:

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This window contains a list of the items in the
current solution. A solution may contain multiple
projects, and each project may contain multiple items.
The Solution Explorer displays a hierarchical list of all
the components, organized by project.
The Properties Window
The Solution Explorer
This window (also known as the Property
Browser) displays all the properties of the selected
component and their settings.
Every time you place a control on a form, you switch
to this window to adjust the appearance of the control
on the form, and you have already seen how to
manipulate the properties of a control through the
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The Output window is where many of the tools,
including the compiler, send their output. Every time
you start an application, a series of messages is
displayed on the Output window. These messages are
generated by the compiler, and you need not
understand them at this point.
If the Output window is not visible, select the View
➢ Other Windows ➢ Output command from the menu..
The Command Window
The Output Window
While testing a program, you can interrupt its
execution by inserting a breakpoint. When the
breakpoint is reached, the program’s execution is
suspended and you can execute a statement in the
Command window. Any statement that can appear in
your VB code can also be executed in the Command
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This window is usually populated by the compiler
with error messages, if the code can’t be successfully
compiled. You can double-click an error message in
this window, and the IDE will take you to the line with
the statement in error—which you should fix.
The Task List Window