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Book VII
Chapter 1
Working with the
Visual C++ 2008 IDE
and Projects
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Modifying the IDE Appearance
windows creates more space for working with editors without making the
window inaccessible.
Figure 1-11 shows three kinds of windows. The editor window appears in the
center. You can close it, but you can’t hide it. The Server Explorer, Toolbox,
Error List, and Output windows are all hidden. If you hover the mouse
cursor over their labels, the windows will reappear. Solution Explorer and
Properties Window are both visible. Notice the thumbtack icon in the upper-
right corner of these windows. Clicking that icon will hide the window; click-
ing it again will make it visible.
Figure 1-11:
Windows
have
different
states
depending
on their use
in Visual
Studio and
how you
configure
them.
You can undock any visible window simply by grabbing its title bar with the
mouse and dragging it anywhere you like — even outside the Visual Studio
IDE window. When you drag a dockable window within the Visual Studio IDE
confines, you see the docking indicators shown in Figure 1-12. Simply drag-
and-drop the dockable window onto any of the docking indicators to dock it.
Visual Studio shows where the window will dock by showing a highlighted
area within the IDE. Windows can appear as separate areas within the IDE or
as a tab with another window (where you select the window you want to see
by selecting its tab).
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