Summary


In this chapter, we have seen that browsers and explorers are Visual Studio windows that typically provide a hierarchical view of their content. They tend to share common interface elements (tree views, toolbars, and elements), and they are, in effect, the primary means to visualize and interact with project elements within the IDE.

Browsers and explorers provide simple point-and-click interfaces for

  • Visualizing and organizing your solutions and projects on a file-by-file basis

  • Visualizing and organizing your projects on a type-by-type, class-by-class basis

  • Querying and interacting with server resources such as databases, performance counters, and message queues

  • Browsing through type libraries

  • Instrumenting assemblies and analyzing performance data

Although certain browsers/explorers touch underlying concepts that are fairly deep and complicated (performance profiling for instance), they are all geared toward a common goal: extending the reach of the IDE as a rapid application development tool for tasks beyond simple code file editing.




Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed
ISBN: 0672328194
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 195

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