Saving your work

How to Save your VB .NET 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.)

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"). But this is not the whole story. When you save your project, a lot of other files are also created. If you use Windows Explorer (part of the Windows Operating system, and not the VB NET software), you can see all those files.

If you wanted to open up your project from here, you would double click the file called "First Form.vbproj".

In Visual Basic .NET an awful lot more files are created for a project than there are with Visual Basic 6. This is due to the Object Oriented nature of NET.

To actually save your work as you go along, do one of the following:

If you save often then you won't lose any of your work if anything goes wrong with your computer.

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!

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