Lesson 2: Overview Of Visual Studio 2010

This lesson series I will teach you the basics of how to use Microsoft Visual Studio IDE with graphical examples.

In previous lesson I teach you how to start the Visual Studio 2010 and create a C# project and save in given location in different methods. 

Now I’m going to tell you about the overview of the VS2010 and how to use its properties, functions easily. Getting know about the VS2010 IDE well means you can use it well for your future coding practices very easily.

VS2010 Menu Bar

 

In here you can see several menus, which will help you to use different functions during your development. Each menu has several sub menus which give similar kind of functions or the activities.

You can use same functions categorized in different tool bars, for that you have to pin them. Then they will visible below the menu bar. But you can adjust their positions as your wish and use them with just a click.

Here you can see different tool bars below.

File:

From this you can create new project, open existing project or add existing project can be done. Apart from that you can save the project and save in different locations with different formats too. You can export your project template also.

Edit:

In here you can undo, redo the actions you done in the project, you can use cut, copy, paste, save or delete functions to modify the code too. Most importantly you can use find and replace function to replace some words in the project.

View:

Here you can see several functions related to coding, you can view the code view and the designer view with forms. Apart from that you can see class view, error list, out puts of the code. You can enable toolbox items here also with just a click. Using toolbars you can select which toolbar should be in the main screen, which will help you for do coding easily.

Project:

Add new forms, classes, reference, service reference, components, new items related to C# and add existing items like pictures can do here. You can see the project properties at the bottom of the list.

Build:

Here you can see the project building options. You can use them as needed to the project.

Debug:

Debug the project can be done here, but most importantly you can start without debugging the project. You can use break points to debug the project.

Team:

This is use to connect Team Foundation Server.

Data:

Adding new SQL, MySQL, Access or other database is possible here.

Format: 

Formatting the code view can be done here. Alignments and ordering also can be done here.

Tools:

Database connectivity, server connectivity and even SharePoint sever connectivity also available for the project. We can select toolbox items which is really needed for your project. Library packages can be manage here. You can use external tools for the project along with import and export settings.

Test:

Here you can run or debug the project and see the output along with select different test settings and edit test settings.

Window:

This is all about windows of the project like .cs , .txt, .xml extension windows.

Help:

This is all about solving problems that arises for the programmer during the coding and debugging. You can use this for any issue that arises in your coding too.

Toolbox:

Here you can see all the tools like buttons, labels, text boxes and many more which we can use for our entire programming. If you select All Windows Forms you can see all tools together or else you can select the category  which show the bunch of related tools.

Solution Explorer & Properties Window:

In solution explorer you can see whatever the Forms, C# code .cs files, references, existing files include in the project. Be careful about these files, you have to give more priority to this section at all.

In Properties you can see the properties of the forms, layouts, sizes, commands and so on. According to your wish they can be used. But you have to be careful about changing the properties. Reason for that is small change without proper knowledge about you will give errors and messed up you too.

This is brief overview about the VS2010, which will give you the basic tips of VS2010 to you. 

Hope it will help you lot.

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