Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

The Properties Window

In the .NET development, everything has properties, which are peculiarities of a particular item. Classes can have properties; files can have properties; and so on. For example, the filename is a property of a file. You often need to set properties for your code, for .NET objects you use in your code, and for your files. To make things easier, Visual Studio provides a tool window named Properties window, which is a graphical tool for setting items’ properties. Figure 2.19 represents the Properties window showing properties for a Windows Form object.

Figure 2.19 The Properties window.

Each time you select a property, you can ...