Chapter 2The Solution Explorer, Toolbox, and Properties
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In Chapter 1, “A Quick Tour,” you briefly saw and interacted with a number of the components that make up the Visual Studio 2015 IDE. Now you get an opportunity to work with three of the most commonly used tool windows: the Solution Explorer, the Toolbox, and Properties.
Throughout this and other chapters you see references to keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl+S. In these cases, we assume the use of the general development settings, as shown in Chapter 1. Other profiles may have different key combinations. And, as you will see in upcoming chapters, you can use the Quick Launch area to get to commands regardless of the development settings that you use.
The Solution Explorer
Whenever you create or open an application, or for that matter just a single file, Visual Studio 2015 uses the concept of a solution to tie everything together. Typically, a solution is made up of one or more projects, each of which can have multiple items associated ...
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