Chapter 1 Exploring the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment 5
within the Visual Basic development community. This is one avenue for receiving new
information about Visual Studio after you purchase the software. (The screen shown
here is probably less detailed than the one you’ll see, but I’ve captured the screens
in 800 x 600 resolution so that you can read the text in them clearly .)The first thing most developers do when they start Visual Studio is open an existing
project—either a completed solution they want to work with again or an ongoing
development project. Try opening an existing project that I created for you—the Music
Trivia program.Open a Visual Basic project- On the Start Page, click the Open Project link.
The Open Project dialog box shown in the following screen shot opens on the screen.
(You can also display this dialog box by clicking the Open Project command on the File
menu or by pressing CTRL+O .) Even if you haven’t used Visual Studio before, the Open
Project dialog box will seem straightforward because it resembles the familiar Open
dialog box in Microsoft Office Word or Microsoft Office Excel.