Saving your Work Knowledge Base Ashutosh Mukherjee ashutosh@desdevpro.com http://www.desdevpro.com 13 Aug 2009 Visual Basic VB.NET Tutorial Series Welcome to Visual Basic 2008, the most mature version yet of the most popular programming language for building Windows and web applications. I will help you build your concepts bit-by-bit in this tutorial series. Think of this as an e-Classroom. If you have any comments/questions, you can use the comments box on the right, or you can contact me through e-mail. How to Save Your Projects If you have a look in the top right of the Design Environment, you'll see the Solution Explorer. (If you can't see it, click View > Solution Explorer.) 007_img1.jpg The Solution Explorer shows you all the files you have in your project (Notice that the name of your project is at the top of the tree - "My First Project"). At first glance, it looks as though there are not many files in the project. But click the Show All Files icon, circled below: 007_img2.jpg When you click Show All Files, the Solution Explorer will look something like this: 007_img3.jpg All the files in the project are displayed When you save your project, you are saving all these files.To save your work, click File > Save All and you'll see the following dialogue box : 007_img4.jpg The files are usually saved in the My Document folder in XP (Document folder in Vista), under Visual Studio and under Projects. If you want to save your projects elsewhere, click the Browse button. To actually save your work as you go along, just click File > Save All from the menu bar. Or press Ctrl + Shift + S on your keyboard. Or click the icon in the Toolbar (the stack of floppy disks). If you save often then you won't lose any of your work if anything goes wrong with your computer(you know unexpected power off!). In the next section, we'll get down and do a bit of actual programming. It's a gentle introduction, so nothing to get too worried about! To be continued...