How Visual C# Helps You Code—Exploring the Edit Menu

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How Visual CSharp Helps You Code Building a User Interface Using Property Smart Tags Aligning Controls Setting Tab Orders Using IntelliSense Fixing Namespace Problems Using Code Snippets Exploring the Edit Menu Edit -> Advanced Edit -> Bookmarks Summary

© 2006 Peter Wright

Exploring the Edit Menu

It may seem like I’m being a bit picky spending time talking about the Edit menu in aWindows application, because nearly every Windows application has one. The Edit menu in Visual C# 2005 Express, though, is different. Take a look at Figure 7-17.

Figure 7-17. The Edit menu in C# Express

There are a few more options here than your average Cut, Copy, and Paste. The Edit menu in C# Express contains a great many tools that can help you immensely while you are coding.

C# EXPRESS’S EVER CHANGING MENUS

Incidentally, you may find that your Edit menu doesn’t contain nearly as many options as mine does. Visual C# 2005 Express changes certain menu contents based on the action you are currently performing within the IDE. For example, the Edit menu looks quite different if you are in the form editor compared to when you are working with the source code editor. The examples here are all talking about the Edit menu when you are working with source code in the source editor views.

The top two-thirds of the menu should be pretty self-explanatory if you’ve used Windows for a while. It’s the submenus Advanced, Bookmarks, Outlining, and IntelliSense that hold the complicated stuff. You’ll take a look at the first two in this section.