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Document Outline Window

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A little-known window available in Visual Studio is the Document Outline.  It is a hierarchial listing of all of the controls on the form/user control.

I find it most useful for:

  1. rearranging the hierarchy,
  2. selecting controls not easily clicked on in the Designer,
  3. quickly adding naming conventions to my controls (faster than going through the dropdown list in the Properties window), and
  4. removing superfluous controls that I forgot were still on the form.

You can access the window by toggling View -> (in 2005: Other Windows ->) Document Outline (or Ctrl + Alt + T).

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