Lesson 3: Simple Tips 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 what the Visual Studio 2010 functions are and how to use them in useful manner.

Now I’m going to tell you about the simple tips of the VS2010 and how to use them in the coding and the design. Getting know about the VS2010 IDE well means you can use it well for your future coding practices very easily.

Canvas: 

 After creating the project you can see this view in the IDE, this is the design view of the project, this Form is called as canvas. This canvas can be resize according to the application by just select the corner and dragging it or go to properties and change the value. You can put any tool which is available in the Toolbox (you can see it in the left hand corner). 

If you double click the tool or just drag & drop that tool in to the canvas will draw the selected tool in the canvas. Size of the tool can be change select the tool and change its size using mouse or go to properties and change the values.

Solution Explorer:

Here shows each an everything that you create, import in the project. Don’t delete Program.cs which is a must in every project.

Here you can see the design view file (Form1.cs) and the code view file (Form1.Designer.cs) separately. According to your need you can view them one at a time. You can add new form or file just right click the Application name (My First Application) and select the necessary. You can add existing item or the reference in the same way too.

You can change the properties of whatever the tool or the form any time according to the need. Here you can see the properties in categorized view if you select the left most icon, or alphabetical order in the current status. But make use do not change the name properties during the coding, others may acceptable.

Code View:

Here you can see the code view of one of the form in the project. Different words in different colors, there is a reason for that I will explain you in later lesson.

Toolbars:

This toolbars are really important for you to save, edit, undo, redo or do many actions to the code and the project easily. Most of the functions are in graphical format, then programmer can easily understand them and get the use of them rather than memorizing and go to the list or the menu and select them.

The green triangle is the run button, which run the project. If there is any errors it will show them with the reason and the line. Then programmer can easily correct them in order to the guidance given by the IDE.

Project can run in debug mode or release mode. According to the programmers need it can change, but project files save in two different folders for different purposes.

Error List:

Errors will display here when you run the program, then the error, description, line, column and the project also display here. Then programmer can easily find where is it and what is it and what should be the solution for that also.

Intermediate Window:

Here all the outputs of the code will show to the programmer. Some projects files doesn’t contain Forms. Therefore those kind of files may have some calculations or algorithms which may give outputs. All those outputs will display here, then programmer can identify what are they and are the correct according to the code or not. Sometimes code may run successfully but content may change according to required code.

Output Window:

This is the final out put that we can see in the form based project. Simple but fully functional software output can be experienced here with the live user experience 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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