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When you first open Visual Studio 2008 there are a number of different things you might see and we can control those, and let's take a look at them now in this video about the Start Up options in Visual Studio. First thing I will do is, I will grab my Start Menu and I will choose Visual Studio 2008. Again, if you have not opened it you won't see this on the Start Menu, you'll have to click All Programs, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and then choose it, OK. Now it's going to open up and depending on a lot Ð not a lot of things Ð depending on how you have this set you may see a Start Page here, OK? And so if you open up to something like this you may be at a loss on what to do so I want to show you how to set this. If you go to Tools right up here, come down to Options, and the List that pops up there, the Menu Options for Tools, click on Options, and then you're going to see the Options dialog box, and there are some cool things here that we'll talk about in a different video, but notice the Start Up options. Choose that one, and you're going to notice that at Start Up it's asking me: Do you want to show the Start Up Page? Which is what I got when I opened a few minutes ago. Or, I can say: Show Open Project Dialog Box, so I will choose that, say OK, close Visual Studio, then let's reopen it and you'll notice that now when it opens up it says, hey, what project do you want to open? OK? This is all a matter of personal preference. There's another thing that you can choose here that you might want to be aware of, and that is Show an Empty Environment, which was what we were getting a few minutes ago; Show the last loaded solution Ð some people like that, and I will say OK; and the last thing that I worked on, I believe, was that Hello World Application. Let's just see. So I'll open it again, it's going to click and hum just a second, and probably because I shut down it's not going to show me any particular one, but if you had a solution opened earlier it would have gotten that for you. OK, so you've got a number of options. I'll show you the one that I like the best, and show you why, and that is to use Start Up, and oh, I had, I didn't have a solution a few minutes ago, that's why, but that would if you had a solution in there and saved and shut down you would get that. I like to set it on Show Start Page, which is what we saw when the video opened, and then if I start this up and go to Visual Studio I get a Start Page here, and this will show me recent projects that I've worked on, OK, and it's also pulling this stuff from the Internet, and so I can get some ideas. You'll notice, Watch the Newest How Do I Videos about Internet Explorer, some more things down here, and I'll just kind of show you an example here: How to Create a User Control in WPF, and if I click that, that's actually a browser and you can notice that it's going to start to open a browser up here and take me through some of this stuff, and it'll actually show it to me right here in the Environment, and so if I could get the browser to behave. So there's some really cool stuff here. Those are your Start Up options, OK, so play with that and make it however it fits your particular taste, and then notice if you use the Start Up Page, and I like this, it stays up here as a tab, so any other forms or any other projects that I open, the Start Page is always going to be here and I can come back and grab a project and just single-click on it and notice it's going to open that Hello World project for me, and we built that in a separate video Ð you may have already seen it by now. And so here are my two tabs for that project. Here's that Video Training tab that's still there, and here's my original Start Page. And notice, I can close these up here and get them off the screen, but I'm not closing the project here, OK? To close the project I have to say: File, Close Project. And if I've made any changes it's going to ask me do I want to save them, OK? So, that's how to set your Start Up options in Visual Studio, and for some reason Visual Studio seems to be coming as a Start Up option to open in an empty environment, and so you'll probably want to go in and change this to show Start Page, OK? Real quick one, I'm getting started in Visual Studio.