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Identifying the IDE tool and document window types

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Identifying the IDE tool and document window types

- In this chapter we embark on a grand tour of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment, otherwise known as the IDE. To start that journey, let's look at the types of windows available in Visual Studio. Basically, there are three types of windows in the Visual Studio IDE; Document windows, tool windows, and dialog windows. Document windows are where you edit text, tool windows are the windows that help you get your work done, dialogs, we'll discuss later. Here in the center of the screen are the document windows. Each document, or one of these files over here, is loaded into an editor with a tab at the top that displays the file name. For example, I have a file called Program.cs. And one called App.config. And one called Fleet.xml. There's one file affiliated with each document window. Not every window loaded in the tab editor contains only code. Here's an example, this ExampleUserControl. This is a WPF User Control. You can see when I open this tab, there's some XML on…

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