The Toolbox
The Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox provides access to the many controls when you’re building web and windows forms. It also provides access to nearly anything that can be dragged onto one of the many designers used for creating forms, XML schemas, class diagrams, and more. As an example, if you are building a web form, the Toolbox provides the many controls, grouped for easier access, which can be added to the form. Furthermore, if you are working with a text editor, the Toolbox enables you to save clips of text for quick access.
Figure 2.23 shows the Toolbox in a standard configuration (undocked from the IDE) for building a web form. Note that the Standard group of controls is closed to highlight some additional control groups. The many ...
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