Hour 2. Navigating Visual Studio .NET

The key to expanding your knowledge of Visual C# .NET is to become as comfortable as possible—as quickly as possible—with the Visual Studio .NET design environment. Just as a carpenter doesn't think much about hammering a nail into a piece of wood, you can become so familiar with performing actions such as saving projects, creating new forms, and setting object properties that they'll be second nature to you. The more comfortable you are with the tools of Visual Studio .NET, the more you can focus your energies on what you're creating with the tools.

In this hour, you'll learn how to customize your design environment by moving, docking, floating, hiding, and showing design windows, as well as how to customize ...

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