Manipulating Visual Studio Windows

Figure 2-4 shows Visual Studio displaying the Get Started pane of the Start page. This is more or less how Visual Studio will look on startup if you chose the At Startup option Show Start Page. You have options to open the last four projects you worked on, to open any other project, and to create a new project.

If you tell Visual Studio to display its Start page on startup, this is what you see.

Figure 2-4. If you tell Visual Studio to display its Start page on startup, this is what you see.

The Visual Studio main menu, toolbars, and status bar work very much like those of other Windows applications. Of course, all the tasks and options pertain to programming rather than to creating textual documents, ...

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