The Class View displays the various classes used by your project, including there ancestry. The items of the Class View an organized as a tree list with the name of the project on top.

The Class View shares some of its functionality with the Solution Explorer. This means that you can use it to build a project, to add new class or a new resource. You can also use it to change the default project if you have more than one.

While the Solution Explorer displays the items that are currently being used by your project, the Class View allows you to explorer the classes used in your applications, including their dependencies. For example, some times you will be using a control of the of the .NET Framework and you may wonder from what class that control is derived. The Class View, rather than the Solution Explorer, can quickly provide this information. To find it out, expand the class by clicking its + button.