Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen that browsers and explorers are Visual Studio windows that typically provide a hierarchical view of their content. They tend to share common interface elements (tree views, toolbars, and elements), and they are, in effect, the primary means for visualizing and interacting with project elements within the IDE.

Browsers and explorers provide simple point-and-click interfaces for

• Visualizing and organizing your solutions and projects on a file-by-file basis.

• Visualizing and organizing your projects on a type-by-type, class-by-class basis.

• Querying and interacting with server resources such as databases, performance counters, and message queues.

• Browsing through type libraries.

Although certain browsers/explorers ...