Types of Windows

There are two types of windows in the Visual Studio .NET IDE: tool windows and document windows. Tool windows are listed in the View menu and change based on the current application and the various add-ins you may have installed. Document windows are those windows that you open in order to edit some item in your project.

Tool Windows

The windows you have learned about in this chapter, including Toolbox, Solution Explorer, Properties, Help, and Server Explorer, are all tool windows. You can manipulate and arrange these tool windows in the development environment in various ways. You can make these windows automatically hide or show themselves. You can have a group of them display in a tabbed format. You can dock them against the ...

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