Section C: The Toolbox and Server Explorer

Floating the mouse over this toolbar will cause it to concertina out so that you can access the individual components. The animated toolbox is a screen real-estate saving device. If you're lucky enough to have a 36-inch monitor, you won't need any of the space saving innovations. Therefore, you can pin all the controls immovably in place with the pushpin icon that you'll see in the top-right corner of the pane. Also, if you have that big monitor and you love to write really long lines of code, you can cause the other panes on the right side, the Solution Explorer and so on, to concertina away by unpinning their pushpins.

The Toolbox

The Toolbox is another toolbar that contains multiple sections, the ...

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