1.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Chapter 2 - Introduction to the Visual Studio.NET IDE Outline 2.1Introduction 2.2Overview of the Visual Studio.NET IDE 2.3Menu Bar and Toolbar 2.4Visual Studio.NET IDE Windows 2.4.1 Solution Explorer 2.4.2 Toolbox 2.4.3 Properties Window 2.5Using Help 2.6Simple Program: Displaying Text and an Image

2.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. 2.1 Introduction Visual Studio.NET –Microsoft’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) –Used to create, run and debug programs (applications) Visual programming –Dragging and dropping predefined building blocks into place to create a simple Visual Basic program

3.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. 2.2 Overview of the Visual Studio.NET IDE Start Page –Helpful links to get around Get Started What’s New Downloads My Profile –Displays recent projects –Displays Open Project and New Project buttons

4.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.1Start Page in Visual Studio.NET. Location bar

5.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.2New Project dialog.

6.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.3Design view of Visual Studio.NET IDE.

7.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.4Visual Studio.NET IDE menu bar.

8.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.5Summary of Visual Studio.NET IDE menus.

9.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.6Toolbar demonstration.

10.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.7Tool tip demonstration. Fig. 2.8Toolbar icons for three Visual Studio.NET IDE windows.

11.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.9Demonstrating the auto-hide feature.

12.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.10Solution Explorer with an open solution.

13.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.11Toolbox window.

14.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.12Properties window.

15.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.13Help menu commands.

16.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.14Dynamic Help window.

17.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.15Simple program executing.

18.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.16Creating a new Windows Application.

19.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.17Setting the project location in the Project Location dialog.

20.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.18Setting the form’s Text property.

21.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.19Form with sizing handles.

22.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.20Changing the form’s BackColor property.

23.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.21Adding a label to the form.

24.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.22Label in position with its Text property set.

25.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.23Properties window displaying the label’s properties.

26.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.24Font window for selecting fonts, styles and sizes.

27.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.25Centering the label’s text.

28.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.26Inserting and aligning the picture box.

29.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.27Image property of the picture box.

30.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.28Selecting an image for the picture box.

31.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.29Picture box displaying an image.

32.  2002 Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Fig. 2.30IDE in run mode, with the running application in the foreground.