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Customizing Visual Studio .NET IDE

The Visual Studio .NET IDE can be customized according to your requirements while creating an application. The following sections will discuss how to customize Visual Studio .NET.

The Options Dialog Box

The Options dialog box is used for customizing the IDE. This dialog box can be used to specify a default location to save the projects and manipulate the layout of IDE. The Options dialog box can also be used for specifying the user interface elements, such as keyboard mappings, font, and color. The Options dialog box is shown in Figure C-15.

FIGURE C-15 The Options dialog box

You can display the Options dialog box by selecting the Options command from the Tools menu.The dialog box consists of two panes that contain folders such as Environment, Text Editor, and Debugging, and their respective options.

The following sections will discuss some frequently used features of the Environment folder.

The General Page

The General Page is used to change the default settings of IDE. You can use this page to display the Status bar in IDE and specify whether IDE should support

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the MDI (Multiple Document Interface) environment. In addition, you can specify the item to be displayed at the startup. The General Page is shown in Figure C-16.

FIGURE C-16 The General Page

The Fonts and Colors Page

The Fonts and Colors Page is used to customize the font and color settings for the elements having a user interface. Figure C-17 shows the Fonts and Colors Page.

FIGURE C-17 The Fonts and Colors Page

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In addition to the pages mentioned previously, the Options dialog box consists of the Documents page, the Dynamic Help page, the Help page, and the Keyboard page.

The Customize Dialog Box

You use the Customize dialog box to manipulate the toolbars that are present in IDE. You can create and modify your own toolbars. You can also add and remove the existing toolbars.

The Customize dialog box can be displayed by selecting Customize from the Tools menu. Figure C-18 shows the Customize dialog box.

FIGURE C-18 The Customize dialog box

As you can see in Figure C-18, the Customize dialog box contains the Toolbars, Commands, and Options tabs. The following section discusses these tabs in detail.

The Toolbars Tab

The Toolbars tab is used create a toolbar and rename, delete, and reset existing toolbars.