The Visual Studio.NET development system

This assignment will test your understanding of the user interface of the Visual Studio.NET development system, moving between design and execution modes, the function of the toolbox, form, solution explorer and property windows, and the relationship between the objects you create on a form and the values shown in the property window.

After studying the description of the development system, load and experiment with it, then answer the following questions:

  1. How do you switch from design to execution mode?
  2. How do you switch from execution to design mode?
  3. Which window has alphabetic and categorized tabs?
  4. How can you undock or dock a window?
  5. When you create a new object, it is given a default name, which you can change. What is the default name given to a newly created Button?
  6. How do you change the default name of an object to something more descriptive of its function?
  7. What values may the Visible property of a Label have?
  8. What values may the Multiline property of a TextBox have?
  9. What does the BackColor property of a form do?
  10. What happens when you change the value of the ForeColor property of a TextBox to red?
  11. The Size property of a Button has Height and Width components. Does changing these in the Properties window alter the user interface as shown in the Form window?
  12. Does resizing a Button in the Form window change the values of it's Size in the Properties window?
Type answers to these questions, and continue playing around until you are comfortable with the VS.NET development system.

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