Getting Started With Visual Studio 2008 / Toolbars
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Now let's take a look at some toolbars and just one more time in the Course here I want to show you how to get in there, inside Visual Studio. I'm going to click Start, All Programs, maybe penned, go to Visual Studio, open it up from here. If you haven't seen the video on Start Up Options, go watch the Start Up Options video because from now on I'm not going to mention this. I'm going to open just a blank application, Windows application, so notice I'm going to create actually a project. I'll choose Create Project and again, depending on how you're here I can do File, New Project, and it'll get me to the same place, or I can drop down here and do New Project Ð it's all the same place. And I'll just call it WindowsApplication3, I don't care, I'm not even going to save it anyway, but what I want you to do is make sure you open a Windows Application and let me show you this in case I went too fast there. If I say New Project just click on Windows Forms Application and just take all the defaults and say OK, and you'll get right here where I am. Now, one of the things that I want to point out in this video are, these toolbars, right up here, now there are some very standard things on these toolbars that you've seen in Microsoft applications for a long time and you can figure these out. This one is Save, and this will save that Form; this one is Save All. Now, I could have multiple Forms in this particular project, and I can have all kinds of stuff going on. If I come up here and just click Save All, it's going to save everything that has had any kind of change made to it, OK, and then notice I'm going to go change this Form1 Text right here and I'll just add Form12, and you'll notice it put an asterisk right here, and this is telling me that this has not been saved, and so I can go up here and click Save All, and you will notice the asterisk goes away, so it saved everything. Now, on this Toolbar here's your normal Cut, Copy, Paste, the one you're really going to like Undo. This will start your Debugging and start to run your App and test it. This will open Solution Explorer Properties Window, so if I accidentally kill the Properties Window I can come up here and click this and put it back, and so you'll just have to play with these. Now, this, right down here, once I put a Button on, then I can start to organize Buttons and if I click them both then notice I can come up here and Ð actually, let me make these different sizes Ð and on this Toolbar, this Formatting Toolbar, if I hold down the Control key and select multiple Buttons notice that I can align these on the right side and it'll move that one over. I can align the centers, so you can see I can do some cool stuff. OK, I can make them the same size, and then align them to the left. So you can see I can do some cool stuff. But now those are the two that come, and you can go play with these; I can decrease the spacing between them, or I can increase the spacing, so, but I want you to notice something, OK, on all of these Tool Bars if I click on View and then come all the way down to toolbars notice how many toolbars you have out there. Now I have right now, I said formatting but actually it's the Layout Toolbar, and the Standard Toolbar. Now the Standard is this top one, OK, and then this one right here is your formatting, or Layout. And notice if I get to where I've got the four arrows I can move this Toolbar around, and if there was enough room I could move it up or down, OK. And if I get the four arrows and right-click, that's a shortcut to add more, OK. So, let's say that we want to add a Formatting Toolbar on, click that and you'll notice here's a Formatting Toolbar, and so any time I'm working with text in an environment where I can work with the text I get these Word-type drop-downs for text Colors and so forth, and then to make that one go away I can right-click and click it again and it will go away. But again notice, and it's worth your time to go grab some of these toolbars and just play with them. But notice you've got quite a few to choose from here, OK? And then you can even customize some of this. So, when you get ready to work with things, for example, CSS, here's the Style Sheet Ð now different Projects may open Tool Bars for you, OK, and so that might help. But if not, just go simply grab one, turn it on, notice I'll turn on the Database Diagram Toolbar, OK, and here it is right now, so we'll start working with the Database Diagram a little later in the Course and then we can grab these things and start to play with them. Notice right here I can click on the right side of every one of these toolbars, I can click and I can add or remove Buttons. And notice here are the Standard ones that are there, but then I can Customize, OK, and I can grab other toolbars just like you can in all Word Applications, and I can even add more commands, OK, from different categories, OK, and so. Notice if I do: File, I can Add an Existing Project, you know, that sort of thing. Let me grab something that's not out there. I can do a Get, right, and I can just drag this up here, let it go, and there it is. It's on there, and then I can close, and when it's available, when it can be used, it will be highlighted and be available. So the bottom line here with all these toolbars Ð let me show you one quick thing here Ð let me grab this one and remove some Buttons, OK? You notice the Button's coming off as I click these things. Notice right up here, the Buttons go away as I move these. OK, and I click, and what I wanted to show you is, I can grab this Toolbar if there's enough space and I can move it up, and so I can arrange these however I would like, OK. So, anyway, a real quick one on toolbars. Go play with these things and once you get a Toolbar up there start to move your mouse over them, take a look at all the little pop-ups that show you little Tooltips to tell you what they do, and educate yourself. You can save a lot of keystrokes and a lot of clicks by educating yourself as to the various buttons up here on each one of these toolbars.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34008 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-54-8 |
| Release Date: | 2009-06-26 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 72 lessons |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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