Using the Class View, Class Designer, and Class Diagram tools

Classes and structures are the heart of building an object-oriented application.…When you are creating these classes, you can use a tool called Class Designer to…simplify integration tasks.…If you are looking at existing classes, you navigate through your class…structure with the Object Browser or the Class View.…Let's start by looking at the Class View.…I am inside Visual Studio, and I have opened a project called UsingClassWindows.…You can see I have two folders in here that contain classes.…I have a BookSeller folder, which contains five classes, and a DataServices…folder, which contains this DataShuttle class.…

I can investigate my class structure by using the Class View.…To View the Class View, I go to the View menu and then choose Class View.…It lives over here next to the Solution Explorer.…It's usually a tab on the same area of the screen as the Solution Explorer.…If you look at the top of this Class View, you'll see three…different namespaces.…The first namespace contains one class, my console program class.…