July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1026 pages
27h 59m
English
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4.8. Control Outline
The Document Outline window has been available in Visual Studio since the first .NET version for HTML files but has been of little use for other file views. When Visual Studio 2003 was released, an add-in called the Control view was developed that allowed a similar kind of access to Windows forms.
The tool was so popular that Microsoft incorporated its functionality into the Document Outline tool window, so now you can browse Windows forms in the same way.
Figure 4-17 shows a typical complex form, with many panels to provide structure and controls to provide the visual elements. Each component is represented in the Document Outline by its name and component type. As each item is selected in the Document Outline window, the corresponding visual element is selected and displayed in the Design view.
This means that when the item is in a menu (as is the case in Figure 4-17) Visual Studio will automatically open the menu and select the menu item ready for editing. As you can imagine, this is an incredibly useful way of navigating your form layouts, and it can often provide a shortcut for locating wayward items.
Figure 4.17. Figure 4-17
The Document Outline window has more functionality when used in Control Outline mode than just a simple navigation tool. Right-clicking an entry gives you a small context menu of actions that can be performed against the selected ...
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