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Chapter 1: Introducing Visual Studio 2010 21
Closing and Opening Windows
Clicking the Close icon on a window title bar will close the window. Another way to close
the window is by selecting the Hide option from the Window Position icon menu.
Reopening a window depends on what type of window it is: VS or Project Item. If the
window is from VS, you can re-visit the View menu and select the window you need to
open. Alternatively, you can use a keyboard shortcut key to open a window. These shortcut
keys for the windows are displayed on the right side of the menu item in the V
iew menu.
Other windows are for project items in the Solution Explorer. In most cases, you
would re-open a project item by locating it in the appropriate project of Solution Explorer
and double-clicking it. There are edge cases where you open project items by right-
clicking the project item in Solution Explorer and selecting a menu item, but I’ll explain
those cases when I discuss them specifically in the rest of this book.
You can now manipulate windows, customizing the layout of your VS environment as
you need. Sometimes, though, you’ll want to reset your layout to the original default, as
you’ll learn about in the next section.
Figure 1-16 Tabbed document windows