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Now, let's take a quick tour of Visual Studio 2008 and in the next video or two I just want to kind of get you acclimated to the environment that you're going to be going into. Now, if you're totally new to this, you will find this video useful. If you've been around a while, you may want to skip the next couple of Visual Studio videos. So first of all, the first time you start Visual Studio 2008 after you install it, Microsoft's going to have it ask you some questions. Notice that we want to download and display online RSS content. Now, Microsoft has and you're going to see in the start page where they'll automatically put out updates and you can read them right in Visual Studio and so I would say leave that there. It's kind of some cool, interesting stuff. Now, notice we can choose to open Visual Studio with General Development Settings. We can obviously change these later or we can do Visual C# Development Settings or Web Development Settings. Let's choose Visual C# and then just choose Start Visual Studio and now it's going to configure the environment for us and all this is going to do is kind of bend the environment of Visual Studio when we open it to a C# kind of world. What I'm going to do now is make this full screen and let's just talk about what we're looking at now. For various reason, humidity, you know, the shape of the moon tonight, all that kind of stuff; actually not the shape of the moon but the reflection off of it. I got you. Please don't e-mail me. That's steps. Anyway, but based on all kinds of things, your particular layout of Visual Studio could be different than this and the reason it can be different is there's a lot of control we have over the screen real estate. Now, remember the RSS Settings we talked about just a few second ago. This is where those come into play. Notice that we have a number of settings and these go all the way back into for when I'm recording this video, June 2008 and they're talking about the next version of C# that's going to be coming out at some point, blah, blah, blah and so you can click on these things and jump out to the Internet. There's a browser built into here and we've got to tell it yes, add all the stuff, OK. But notice we just jumped right out into a browser and unfortunately we're using; don't you just love this stuff? Anyway, you can see how, if you've got the patience and the time and determination, using Internet Explorer you can eventually get out there and see this stuff. So we went right out to the Internet to find these things and we can see the latest that's going on with C# or something C# related. Now, notice this is one of the things that can start to confuse new people in Visual Studio. Everything here ends up tabbed. We started on the Start Page and when we clicked on this link it created a new tab up here and opened a browser there and displayed the information we clicked on. Now to get rid of that we just simply go to that tab which we're on now, come over here and click the X and we can get rid of that and do away with all this irritating scripting stuff that's going to come with Internet Explorer. I won't get into an Internet Explorer bashing session here. I'll let you pause the video and do that for yourself. So anyway, now with Visual Studio, notice we've got a number of things. We can hit some training tutorial things here, some walk-throughs but for now let's just create a project. So I'm going to go to Create. I will click on Project and notice we'll just do a Windows Forms Application. We'll take all the defaults here. We'll talk about these later and notice it's just going to open up the environment. Now, notice it gave us a form because we're doing the Windows Forms App and what I want to start to show you now is introduce you to some of the aspects of Visual Studio that you can change and customize. The first thing is that when you're trying to program here and you're trying to type, for example, if I double click on the form, it will take me to the code behind the page where I can actually start to write code. Well, I could run out of real estate here so what I can do is grab this over here, just mouse over it, left click it and drag it and I can move it out of the way and it gives me more space. But there's a better thing that I can do and if you'll notice on the Solution Explorer, which we'll talk about in a different video, there is this little pushpin looking icon up here and notice if I mouse over it, it says Auto Hide. If I click that, notice that Solution Explorer slid out of the way. Now I have the entire screen to program in. If I want to see the stuff that's in the Solution Explorer, all I have to do is mouse over it and it will pop out and I can see it. Now, the same thing is happening over here with my Toolbox. I will go back, notice my tab up here. Once I go somewhere in Visual Studio, it tabs it across the top. I'll go back to my design where my form is and now I can mouse over the Toolbox and I can see common controls and so there's a button and I can drag a button onto here and let it go and then move it into place and but notice my Toolbox is over here and it slides out. And obviously I can pin it up. Then I can pin the Solution Explorer up so I can see everything that I want to see but I just have smaller space here. And you'll also notice in the Toolbox they have divided these up and you can see Menus and Toolbars and so you'll just have to look around through this and get accustomed and you'll see a lot of this as we go through the course and we write some code. Now, it's going to be hard not to wander over into making this a Visual Studio course but since Visual Studio is where we do the coding for Visual Studio and for Visual C#, then there's going to have to be a little bleed over here. So that's the first part of the Visual Studio Tour and in the next video we'll just kind of continue from here and I want to show you some other things that you need to be aware of in Visual Studio to be able to move around and be comfortable as you learn or as you reacquaint yourself wherever you are with C#. So I'll join you in Part 2.