Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Closing and Opening Windows, Tabbed document windows

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Figure 1-16 Tabbed document windows

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 View 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.