Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 2. Navigating Visual C# 2005

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Navigating Visual C#

• Using the Visual Studio .NET Start Page to open and create projects

• Showing, hiding, docking, and floating design windows

• Customizing menus and toolbars

• Adding controls to a form using the toolbox

• Viewing and changing object attributes using the Properties window

• Working with the many files that make up a project

• How to get help

The key to expanding your knowledge of Visual C# is to become as comfortable as possible—as quickly as possible—with the Visual C# design environment. Just as a carpenter doesn’t think much about hammering a nail into a piece of wood, performing actions such as saving projects, creating new forms, and setting object properties should become ...