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Chapter 1
Figure 1-10
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Toolbox: The Toolbox contains reusable components that can be added to your application. These
can range from buttons to data connectors to customized controls either purchased or developed
by you.
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Design Window: The Design window is where a lot of the action takes place. This is where you
will draw your user interface on your forms. This window is sometimes referred to as the
Designer.
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Solution Explorer: The Solution Explorer window contains a hierarchical view of your solution.
A solution can contain many projects while a project contains forms, classes, modules and
components that solve a particular problem.
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Class View: The Class View window (shown as a tab at the bottom the Solution Explorer
window) gives you a tree view of the classes in your program and shows the properties and
methods that each contains. A class is a code file that groups data and the functions that
manipulate it together into one unit. A property is data and a method is a function or subroutine.
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Properties: The Properties window shows what properties the selected object makes available.
Although you can set these properties in your code, sometimes it is much easier to set them while
you are designing your application (for example, drawing the controls on your form). You will
notice that the File Name property has the value Form1.vb. This is the physical file name for the
form’s code and layout information.
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Dynamic Help: The Dynamic Help window (shown as a tab at the bottom of the Properties
window) displays a list of help topics that relate to what has focus in the IDE. If you click on the
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