Visual Studio IDE Basic Components

There are several windows found when you open a new project in Visual Studio they are as follows:

• Toolbox on the left
• Property window on the right
• Solution Explorer also on the right
• Design/Code in the middle

Toolbox

Toolbox consists of many different controls that can be used by the developer on the webpage to design it in the desired manner that he likes. It ease the developer from hard coding the controls as this toolbox allows a developer to just drag and drop controls from the toolbox to the webpage. Source code will be effected automatically when the design is changed. Examples of controls found in toolbox are TextBox control,Buttons,Labels etc.

Property Window

The properties windows shows all the properties of each control of the toolbox which are added to the design of the web application. For example, we can change the TextMode property of the TextBox from singleline to password for login purposes.

Solution Explorer

The Solution Explorer window is used to manage your projects and the files that are created and opened in the visual basic tool. The following are the most common tasks that can be done by using Solution Explorer:

• Rename an existing solution.
• Rename, add, and remove a project.
• Rename, add, and remove files.
• Add and remove References.
• Add a folder and manage contents inside it.

Design/Code View

It is the middle part of the screen. Design view is the place where we add controls from the toolbox. Here we design the page according to our needs. It also contain a source view where the code is automatically added when we make changes to the design view. Source view contains html codes. There is a split view which shows both design and source view in a split screen. Code view(also called Codebehind) is the place where we can add the coding content for a page inorder to perform a particular task on runtime. This view is based on a specific language like vb or c#.
  
You may see the IDE components below:

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