A project results in the production of an executable or a library. Most solutions consist of a single project, but many consist of two or more.
Click and drag on the title bar; use the indicators for placement.
Toggles between lock in place, and hide as a tab.
F5 indicates run with debugging; Ctrl-F5 indicates run without debugging.
Allows you to store more than one item on the clipboard.
Ctrl-Shift-V cycles through all the selections.
Allows you to search for symbols (namespaces, classes, and interfaces) and their members (properties, methods, events, and variables).
A tool for returning to a specific place in your code.
An editing tool to help you find the right method and/or the correct parameters and much more.
A complete outline of a commonly used programming structure with replaceable items to speed development.
Insert a bookmark before the Console.Writeline()
statement in Hello
World. Navigate away from it and then use the Bookmarks menu
item to return to it.
Your Visual Studio window should look something like Figure A-1.
Undock the Solution Explorer window from the right side of the IDE and move it to the left. Leave it there if you like or move it back.
Your Visual Studio window should look something like Figure A-2.
Insert a code snippet for a for
loop from the Edit → Intellisense
menu into your Hello World program. (It won’t do anything for
now; you’ll learn about for
loops in Chapter
4.)
Your Visual Studio window should look something like Figure A-3.