Visual Studio 2010 help

[Frylock86]

I am (trying) to open a homework assignment for Visual Studio 2010. For this assignment we were given an already (somewhat) built solution to work with, however when I click the file, VS 2010 opens, but nothing shows up. No form or code. Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong?

[Antaris Veteran]

Screenshot?

[Gabureiru]

is there's a dock tab on your right hand that says: Solution Explorer???

[Frylock86]

is there's a dock tab on your right hand that says: Solution Explorer???

Yes.

This is the screen after clicking open the file :

[Gabureiru]

click on solution explorer, a tree like view will show all the files of the project

[Frylock86]

click on solution explorer, a tree like view will show all the files of the project

Holy s***.... :pinch:

VS is making a really huge ass out of me since this class began. I've been expecting this whole time for the form and code to automatically pop up once I double clicked the file.

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Thank you for your help!

[sathenzar]

Don't feel bad, we all have these moments while we're learning :).

[denro]

Holy s***.... :pinch:

VS is making a really huge ass out of me since this class began. I've been expecting this whole time for the form and code to automatically pop up once I double clicked the file.

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Thank you for your help!

When you say you "clicked on the file" what was the extension of the file? You should be clicking on either the .sln file (the solution file) or the .csproj file (the project file). A solution can contain more than one project, but for your exercise it probably just contains one. Don't click on the .cs file but be sure you can see extensions (if you are using Windows Explorer, MS has it dumbed down so that you do not see registered extensions by default, change this in explorer's or myComputer's options. Then you need to click on the sln or the csproj file, and then as other responders have said you can unfold the tree in the solution explorer of VS and double click if need be on the appropriate cs file in the solution explorer.

Hope this helps. I teach a college course in C# using the new VS 2010.

Dennis Roark, PhD