Datasheet

Figure 1-35: The Format menu contains commands for formatting and arranging controls on a form.
❑ Lock Controls — This command locks all of the controls on the form so that they cannot be
moved or resized by clicking and dragging. You can still move and resize the controls by chang-
ing their Location and Size properties in the Properties window. Invoking this command again
unlocks the controls. Locking the controls can be useful if you have spent a long time position-
ing them precisely. After they are locked, you can work on the controls without fear of acciden-
tally messing up your careful design.
Tools
The Tools menu, shown in Figure 1-36, contains miscellaneous tools that do not fit particularly well in
the other menus. It also contains a few duplicates of commands in other menus and commands that
modify the IDE itself.
The following list describes the Tools menu’s most useful commands. Note that not all of these commands
are shown in Figure 1-36; some only appear when another type of editor is open.
❑ Attach to Process — This command displays the dialog box shown in Figure 1-22 to let you
attach the debugger to a running process. Select the process to which you want to attach and
click Attach.
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