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Visual Studio 7 / Graphical Layout
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In this video we are going to continue in the Visual Basic .NET integrated development environment, and this time I want to talk about the graphical layout. Now this is incredibly better than the old Visual Basic way. I'm going to open the solution explorer by doing a mouse over here, and you'll notice this that I have references, assembly info and form1. Now if I double click on form1, obviously I can see my form; now out here in the solution explorer I can see the form or I can click here and go see the code; either way I can move back and forth just like before. But now there is something that they've done is really neat about managing this in this environment, and I'm going to show that to you. And that is, if I'm looking at the form and I want to go to my code, I can like always double-click on my button and it takes me to the click event on my button. But if I want to go back to the form, I don't have to come back to solution explorer, wait for this to come out, click on form and come up here and go to this. Ok. There is a better way, notice the tabs across the top, right here. Once I'm in the code and I want to go back to my form, I can point at the form tab and click and I'm back there. And if I want to go see my code again I can point to the form1.vb tab and go back to my code. So I can very easily go back and forth through these things. Notice my start page is up here. I can go back to the start page at any time. And I can see my form. Now assembly info is out here, and I can open it up and look. Now one of the best things that I can do is under help. Now, I want you to notice that if I go to help and choose dynamic help, this is a new feature and it's very similar to what we saw earlier with the help, the 'F1' topics. But basically if I got as question about a button, if I click on button, you'll see button class; if I click on checkbox here it automatically went to a different checkbox helps. And so if I want the checkbox class I can click here, and notice that help shows up out here where my code was. And so you are going to see in just a second that help's going to show up here, I can read it, right here where my code was. And so there's the help, right inside here, and I can scroll up and down and I can see what it looks like. And then when I'm through reading that, I can go right back to my form right here. And I can work on it or I can work in my code. And if I say - wait a minute now, what exactly was it that was in that help? - I can go back to the help that was there. Ok, and then I can go back to my form. Now dynamic help has now shown up. I can clear my pushpin and dynamic help will slide out of the way, and you will notice that I now have the solution explorer here, I have my properties here in this little box, and I have dynamic help here, so if I want to see my properties, I just mouse over that and my properties come out. Now you'll also notice that as I start to use up space on this right side, some of these like help will get smaller and properties or solutions explorer will get larger. The larger ones tend to be the ones that I've used the most, or the last ones that I've used. So if I use, notice if I use dynamic help notes, it got larger and the properties got smaller. And if I use properties, it got larger and the dynamic help got smaller. And I can freely move around among these things and find out what's happening. So but really everything that I open will end up, up here on a tab. Now what if I don't want for example the assembly info on the tab anymore. I can right click on the tab and say close, and it closed it. It didn't get rid of it, it is still over here, and if I ever want to open it again, I can simply double click it and it opens it back up and puts it on a tab. And when I'm through with it, I can close it away. OK now you'll notice I can do a new horizontal tab group. And what this did - this has split my windows here between this top part and something on the bottom. And so this is the way to deal with my different graphical layouts of how I want my windows to be. Now that's just a little example of the different graphic possibilities that I have inside the visual studio IDE. Now you'll notice that there is also tabs down here at the bottom, and if I have multiple windows open down here at the bottom and let me go view, go grab another one, notice if I get the output window that shows up down here I can unpin it and notice I now have output and tasks. And so there's my task, and if I mouse over here there's my output. And again I can have these things slide down out of the way. Very graphical, very easy to use, it really gives you a lot of screen space when you need it, but allows you to get to the information you want when you need that as well. So that's the graphical layout portion; in the next video we are going to talk about the files and extensions that we have in VB .NET.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Visual Basic .NET |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 33433 |
| ISBN: | 1932072349 |
| Release Date: | 2003-05-27 |
| Duration: | 6 hrs / 87 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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