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How to "see" your program in Visual Studio

24th January 2015 Paul Chris Jones

When you open a project in Visual Studio, by default it'll only show the code.

no design view

But what about actually 'seeing' your program - the useful design view that shows you what the user interface looks like? To open the design view, just press Shift + F7. Or you can click View > Designer in the Menu bar.

with design view

This may seem simple, but I'm a beginner to this program, and finding the design view has left me stumped on a few occasions.

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