Filter
Top Products
136 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide
Navigating a Project with Class View
An alternate way to work with projects is via Class view, which allows you to view
solutions and project artifacts through the logical layout of the code. In C#, you can open
Class view by pressing
CTRL-W, C or select Class View from the View menu. In VB you
can open Class view by pressing
CTRL-SHIFT, C or select View | Other Windows | Class
View. Figure 5-12 shows the Class View window.
In Class view, you have a hierarchy of nodes that start at the project, include references
and namespaces, and contain classes under those namespaces. Under each class you have
Base Types, which contains a list of base classes derived from and implemented interfaces
for that specific class. Notice how I selected the Student class in Figure 5-12, which shows
the members of the class in the bottom pane.
As shown in the Class View toolbar, you can create new folders, use the arrows to
navigate up or down the hierarchy, or choose options of what to display in the hierarchy.
There is also a button with a glyph of objects that indicate how to create a class diagram,
which is discussed in the next section.
Figure 5-12 The Class View window