As you learn more about VB.NET, you'll discover that there are other ways to create, find, and use them. In a later lesson, we'll also take a look at the actual program code that "adds" a component to your program.
You have already seen a lot about Properties. The "Properties Window" is a place where you can find the available properties and where you can set their initial values. But if you want to change them in program code, Visual Studio Intellisense provides a list that includes both Properties and Methods that can be used with any component.
And finally, in the previous lesson, we saw that the events that a component will respond to can be found in a list available in the code window.
You might be asking, "Why are these things spread all over the place? Why can't there be just one tool where I can find all of them?" The answer is that Visual Studio does have a tool like this. It's called (naturally enough) the Object Browser. The reason it's not used more is that it's a lot harder to find and use things with the Object Browser. But it's all there if you want to take the trouble to track it down. And other things that we haven't discussed yet are there too! For example, here's the Value property of the DateTimePicker component in the Object Browser.
In the previous lesson, I promised we would return to the first program, Music Trivia and consider how it might be expanded. To do that, you need to study the next two programs.
