Source Window
As the centerpiece of Visual Studio .NET, the source code window is where you do most of the work. Even though source code is in an ASCII text-only format, programming languages contain syntax rules that allow Visual Studio .NET to take advantage of them to organize and present the source code in various ways.
Outlining
If you've ever used the previous version of Visual Basic, you'll recall that functions were separated from each other by horizontal lines. Although this might have been annoying to some, it at least organized the code into discernable blocks. These horizontal lines are gone now, but in their place is a very nice addition to source code layout: outlining. Visual Studio .NET determines where certain blocks of code ...
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