Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step eBook

34 Part I Getting Started with Microsoft Visual Basic 2010

Exit Visual Studio

1. Save any changes you’ve made to your program by clicking the Save All button on the
   Standard toolbar.
   As you learned in the preceding section, the default behavior in Visual Studio 2010
   is that you give your program a name when you begin a project or solution, but you
   don’t specify a file location and save the project until you click the Save All button or
   the Save All command on the File menu. You’ve made a few changes to your project, so
   you should save your changes now.


2. On the File menu, click the Exit command.

The Visual Studio program closes. Time to move on to your first program in Chapter 2!

Chapter 1 Quick Reference

To Do This

Start Visual Studio Click Start on the taskbar, click All Programs, click the Microsoft Visual Studio

2010 folder, and then click the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 program icon.

Open an existing

project

Start Visual Studio. Click Open Project on the File menu.

or (if possible)

On the Start page, click the project in the Recent Projects pane.

Compile and run a

program

Click the Start Debugging button on the Standard toolbar.

or

Press F5.

Set properties Click the form object whose properties you want to set. In the Properties

window, click the property name in the left column, and then change the

corresponding property setting in the right column.

Resize a tool window Display the tool as a floating window (if it is currently docked), and resize it

by dragging its edges.

Move a tool window Display the tool as a floating window (if it is in a docked state), and then

drag its title bar.

Dock a tool window With the mouse pointer, drag the window’s title bar over a docking guide to

preview how it will appear, and then release the mouse button to snap the

tool into place.

Restore a floating

tool window

Hold down the CTRL key and double-click the window’s title bar.

Auto hide a docked

tool window

Click the Auto Hide pushpin button on the right side of the title bar of

the tool window. The window hides behind a small tab at the edge of the

development environment until you hold the mouse over it.

Disable Auto Hide

for a docked tool

window

Click the tool tab, and then click the Auto Hide pushpin button.