Working with Tool Windows

As in the previous versions of Visual Studio, lots of the tools in Visual Studio 2015 are provided via tool windows. Tool windows are floating windows that can be docked to the IDE interface and are responsible for various tasks. As a general rule, you find the tool windows provided by Visual Studio 2015 in the View menu. However, you find the test tool windows and the analysis tool windows in the Test and Analyze menus, respectively, and tool windows specific for debugging are available in the Debug menu. (See Chapter 5, “Debugging Visual Basic 2015 Applications.”)

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This book utilizes several tool windows, and this chapter provides an overview of the ones that are most frequently used. In particular, this chapter ...

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