The Dialog Editor is a tool that encourages you to begin at once, and you'll probably learn most of what you need to know by simply using it.
This tutorial is also important, though. In the following sections, you'll learn to design a dialog, test it, and see how to include it in your application. You'll also discover aspects of the editor that you can't discover by just using it—how to easily duplicate a control, for example. To help you follow the tutorial, marginal notes indicate places where you take some action.