Datasheet

Help
The Help menu shown in Figure 1-50 displays the usual assortment of help commands. You should be
familiar with most of these from previous experience.
One new item in the Help menu is the How Do I command. This command opens the help system and
displays a page full of links to common programming topics. These topics lead to a hierarchical series
of categorized tutorials on various programming topics. For example, the Visual Basic ➪ Language ➪
Basics ➪ Data Types ➪ Data Type Summary topic describes the Visual Basic data types, their storage
requirements, and their ranges of allowed values.
Figure 1-50: The Help menu contains commands that give you help.
Toolbars
The Visual Studio toolbars are easy to rearrange. Grab the four gray dots on a toolbar’s left or upper
edge and drag the toolbar to its new position. If you drag a toolbar to one of the Visual Studio edges, it
will dock there either horizontally (on the IDE’s top or bottom edge) or vertically (on the IDE’s left or
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