Using Views
Several views are available in Visual Studio to help you manage what is going on in the development process. Some of these views will be familiar to Visual Basic 6 developers and others are unique to .NET.
Let's take a moment to go over some of the Visual Studio View menu items.
Solution Explorer
Visual Studio is an enterprise development tool. The Solution Explorer contains a solution-level view. When you are developing in Visual Basic .NET, a solution is similar to a .VBG, Visual Basic group.
A solution can contain one or more projects (see Figure 1.8). The Solution Explorer shows the solution at the top of the view and each project grouped within the solution. Each element in the solution view has a different context menu, accessed ...
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