Soup to Nuts Lab 1: A Tour of Visual Studio.Net - Exercise 5: Configuring the Visual Studio .NET IDE

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Scenario

In this exercise, you will explore a few of the many different configuration options available for customizing the .NET IDE.

        tasks              Detailed Steps

1. Turn on line numbers.
   
   
   1. Click Tools and choose Options.
      
      Note the many different categories for choosing options in the IDE. 
      
   2. In the Options tree, click Text Editor. 
      
   3. Click C# if you are using C#, Basic if you are using Visual Basic. 
      
   4. Click General. 
      
   5. Under Display, check Line numbers. 
      
   6. Click OK.
      
      Line numbers will now be displayed in the code pane on the left-hand margin.
      
      
2. Add a custom task tag to the tasks list.
   
   
   1. Click Tools and choose Options.
      
   2. In the Options tree, click Environment.
      
   3. Click Fonts and Colors.
      
   4. Ensure the Show settings for combo box is set to Text Editor.
      
      Notice the different categories you can set the font for. 
      
      
   5. Click the Font (bold type indicates fixed-width fonts) dropdown.
      
   6. Choose Comic Sans MS.
      
   7. Click the Size dropdown. 
      
   8. Choose 12.
      
   9. Click OK.
      
      View the code pane and notice how the font has changed. 
      
      
   10. Use steps a through i to change the Text Editor font back to Courier New, 10 pt. (the default) .
       
3. Add a custom task tag to the tasks list.
   
   
1. Click Tools and choose Options.
   
2. In the Options tree, click Environment. 
   
3. Under Environment, click Task List.
   
   Note the pre-loaded tasks in the Token list: HACK, TODO, UNDONE, and UnresolvedMergeConflict.
   
   
4. In the Name box, type RENAME. 
   
5. Click Add.
   
   RENAME now appears in the Token list:
   
6. Click OK 
   
7. In Solution Explorer, double-click Customers.
   
   The Customers form loads into the Forms Designer in the middle pane of the IDE.
   
8. On the Customers form, double-click the Get Customer button. 
   
9. In the code pane, enter a comment RENAME on the line above the button click
   
   method declaration.
   
   C#
   
   //RENAME
   private void button1_Click(object sender,
     EventArgs e)
    {
    ...
   
    Visual Basic .NET
     ‘RENAME
     Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _ 
       ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
      ...
   
10. In Solution Explorer, double-click Customers.
    
    The Customers form loads into the Forms Designer in the middle pane of the IDE. 
    
    
11. Click View and choose Show Tasks | All.
    
    The Task List pane appears at the bottom of the IDE.
    
    
12. In the Task List pane, double-click RENAME.
    
    The code pane opens, and the RENAME comment is highlighted indicating that the developer needs to take action on the named task.

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