Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
    • Introducing the Start Page
    • Using Dynamic Help
    • The New Projects Dialog
    • Exploring the Visual Studio .NET IDE
    • Using the Project Menu
    • Using the Build Menu
    • Managing Code Windows and Designers
    • Getting the Right Toolbars
    • Customizing Your Environment
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Using the Project Menu

The Project menu gives you the ability to add new items to your current project. You can also access this menu by right-clicking your project name in the Solution Explorer. From this menu, you can also add assembly references, COM references, Web services references, and existing items from other projects or the file system to your application. Figure 2.16 shows the Add New Item dialog box that you can access from the Project menu.

Figure 2.16 The Add New Item dialog box.

By default, the items listed in the Project menu are specific to the type of project template you're using. The current project is a Windows Forms application, so the available default items are Forms based. If you were working with an ASP.NET application, the project items would be specific to Web projects. Using the Add New Item dialog box, you have access to all available item types for all project types.

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