Customizing Your Environment

Being able to customize your IDE will make your life easier in the long run. Because you've just started using Visual Studio .NET, you probably don't know what customizations would be useful. In this section, I discuss the most useful customization options based on what I've learned using Visual Studio .NET over the last two years.

To get to the Options dialog, select Tools, Options from the main menu. You're presented with the Options dialog box shown in Figure 2.25.

Figure 2.25. The Options dialog box.

The Options dialog is broken down by tree nodes displayed on the left side of the dialog box. The right side of ...

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