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Figure 1-36: The Tools menu contains miscellaneous commands and commands that modify the IDE.
❑ Connect to Device — This command lets you connect to a physical device or emulator such as
Pocket PC or Smartphone devices or emulators. You can use the devices and emulators to test
software you are writing for devices other than the Windows platform where you are building
the application.
❑ Connect to Database — This command displays the Connection Properties dialog box, where
you can define a database connection. The connection is added to the Server Explorer window.
You can later use the connection to define data adapters and other objects that use a database
connection.
❑ Connect to Server — This command displays a dialog box that lets you connect to a database
server.
❑ Code Snippets Manager — This command displays the Code Snippets Manager, which you can
use to add and remove code snippets.
❑ Choose Toolbox Items — This command displays a dialog box that lets you select the tools dis-
played in the Toolbox. For instance, by default the
OleDbDataAdapater and OleDbConnection
components are not included in the Toolbox. You can use this command to add them if you will
use them frequently.
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