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Another valuable tool is the properties window. By default, this is located in the bottom right hand part of your screen. If you do not see it, here is a tip. Go ahead and select F4 which will automatically popup the properties window in its default location. The properties window changes data depending on what item you are focused on.

Let us go ahead and look at the formed object in the design pane and see what happens to the properties window.

Go ahead and select the design mode for the form, select the form itself and you will see that the properties window reflects the formed object. All this properties that you see here are available not only the properties window but also programmatically through your code. You could sort this alphabetically or you can choose to group these se by category, so I can have all my design properties in one place, my layout properties as well as my appearance and accessibility properties.

I can go ahead and change the value of these properties simply by typing into the box.

This is not the only place where I can use my properties window. I can also use it in conjunction with the server explorer. Let us go ahead and see how to do this.

Go to your server explorer and scroll down to your services node. We will collapse some of these and expand the services node. Here, I can manage the window services I have running on my machine or any machine that I have access to. As you can see, there is a visual indicator indicating whether that service is running or not.

Not only can I view the status of my services but can also work with them right within the server explorer. Go ahead and right click on the service, we will do the first one and go ahead and select the start option. I can now go ahead and start my .net run time optimization service. And as you can see in the properties window, the status now shows is running. If I selected one that was not running, I can see that the status and the properties window shows stop.

I can do a lot more with my services. Let us scroll down and take a look at sequel server.

Sequel server runs as MS sequel server. I can see the status is running. If I want to see what services that I have dependent on my sequel server, I have to go ahead and expand the dependent services node. Here, I can take a look at the services that are dependent on sequel server. Go ahead and expand and scroll down. Here, you can see the sequels server agent service depends on the MS sequel server service for support.

As you can see, the properties window and the server explorer can be used in conjunction with one another.

Another valuable tool is the properties window. By default, this is located in the bottom right hand part of your screen. If you do not see it, here is a tip. Go ahead and select F4 which will automatically popup the properties window in its default location. The properties window... click to read more