Navigating the project environment
When you are working in SQL Server Development Tools, you are working locally in an offline mode. This means that you are only making changes to your local source files, and not to the server. This is something that can be confusing if you have not worked in an IDE such as Visual Studio before.
One thing that you also need to be aware of is that the IDE is dynamic, meaning that it looks different depending on what project template you have opened. If you have created a project of a different type, it will have content relevant to that project type in all the windows.
Let us go through some of the key aspects of the development environment.
Solution Explorer
An important part of the IDE is the Solution Explorer that contains a folder structure local to your project; in this structure you will find the different source code files organized into sections. As you can see in the screenshot, you have a folder for the different data sources, one for the cubes and...
