The Menus

If you’ve been working with earlier versions of Visual Studio, you should find the Visual Studio 2015 menu bar to be standard fare. It is intuitive; options are where you would expect them; and new menus appear depending on your place within the IDE, the tools you’ve chosen to install, and your default programming language. For example, the Build menu shows up when you have a project open.

Table 2.1 lists (from left to right across the IDE) some of the more common menus, along with a description of each.

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