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Once youve built up a form, it can be cumbersome to select various pieces of the UI. There are several ways to navigate your dialog in the designer.

  • Document outline: While you are designing your dialog, use the Visual Studio Document Outline window to navigate from panel to panel. This shows a hierarchical view of the panels within your project. Typically this can be opened by using View->Other Windows->Document Outline.
  • Escape key: When you select a control, you can get select its parent by pressing ESC key.
  • ContextMenu: When you select a control, you can select its parent by right clicking and choosing Select <parent> from the context menu.
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