Project Explorer
The Project Explorer displays a tree view of your project file, which contains pointers to all your application files (tables, forms, queries, bitmaps, and so on) after you add them to the project. Several standard folders are provided, and you can create your own custom folders. Each folder is assigned certain file extensions and may contain only files with those extensions.
The Project Explorer looks and acts much like the Windows Explorer. Files have context (right-click) menus that let you open, run, compile, create something new, and so on.
When you have files in your project, the right-hand pane displays read-only views of a file you select. A file may have more than one view, in which case more than one tabbed page may appear. For example, one tab may show source code for a custom control, another, the visual object.
By dragging the split bar, you can vary the sizes of the panes and hide the view pane entirely.
From the Project Explorer, you can
Compile and build a project.
Set properties for the project as a whole; for example, you can set compile options, like preprocessor directives.
Set properties for individual files; for example, you can specify which files you don’t want to include in the build.
Designate which file should be the first to open when your executable file is run (the main file).
Open several files at once.
If you create a file while a project is open, the file is automatically added to the project.