Chapter 5. Discover More Tools for Your Design Time, Part 1
The IDE provides numerous tools beyond those featured in the editor to assist you in designing and writing code. In fact, there are so many tools and tips that I needed two parts to describe them all. Chapter 5 focuses on tools that are provided as a tool window. Chapter 6 focuses on tools that are either dialog boxes or Web pages.
Tool Windows
The majority of the tools offered by the IDE exist as tool windows. Unlike a dialog box, where you can interact only with the tool when the dialog box is open, a tool window allows you to quickly toggle between your editor and the tool.
This section covers tips for the Command Window, Toolbox, Task List, Output window, and Object Browser.
Command Window ...
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