Configuring IDE Options

Spending a lot of time customizing the IDE has never borne much fruit. Generally, barring a few specific changes, the default settings for the IDE work reasonably well. When you identify a specific need, look it up and make the change.

In this section, I will briefly cover configuration options and point out a few interesting ones. Later in the book, if we need a specific setting, I will tell you about it and how to modify it.

All configuration settings discussed in this section refer to the values in the Options dialog box. The Options dialog box uses the folder metaphor for navigating views.

Environment Options

The Environment options contain general configuration and IDE settings organized by the following subviews: ...

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