You can use the toolbar’s Browse drop-down to filter or change the scope of the objects displayed within the Object Browser. The scoping options offered are shown in Table 5.10.
A custom component set is a list of components that you manually specify. Using a custom list might be useful when you want to browse a list of components from a variety of different “buckets.” Instead of wading through each of the other scopes, you could include only those types that you care about in the component list.
You add to the custom component list by selecting the Edit Custom Component Set option in the Browse drop-down or by clicking the ellipsis to the right of the drop-down. This launches an editor dialog box in which you can add or remove entries in this list (see Figure 5.14).
Adding a component to the set is as easy as selecting from one of the prepopulated object lists (available via the .NET, COM, or Projects tabs) or by browsing directly to the container assembly via the Browse tab. You can select an object or objects and then click the Add button. The current set members show up at the bottom of the dialog box. You can also select a current member and remove it from the list by clicking the Remove button.