Chapter 2. The Solution Explorer, Toolbox, and Properties

In Chapter 1 you briefly saw and interacted with a number of the components that make up the Visual Studio 2008 IDE. Now you will get an opportunity to work with three of the most commonly used tool windows — the Solution Explorer, the Toolbox, and Properties.

Throughout this and other chapters you will see references to keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl+S. In these cases we assume the use of the general development settings, as shown in Chapter 1. Other profiles may have different key combinations.