# Starting the Spread Designer

This topic provides you steps to start the Spread Designer from inside your Visual Studio .NET project.

## Content

You can start Spread Designer from inside your Visual Studio .NET project by performing either of these steps: right-clicking on the control and selecting the context menu or selecting the designer verb area of the Smart Tags, both shown below.

| **Description** | **Picture** |
| ----------- | ------- |
| Context (right-click) menu of the FpSpread component selected on the form in Visual Studio | ![Spread Designer Verb in VS Context Menu of FpSpread](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/346c9178-0ed8-4fb9-908b-1565b22fb408/artwork/sd-contextmenu-vscontrol.png) |
| Verb area of the Smart Tags (that shows up after clicking on the arrow to the right) of the FpSpread component selected on the design form in Visual Studio | ![Spread Designer Verb Area of SmartTags on FpSpread Component](https://cdn.mescius.io/document-site-files/images/346c9178-0ed8-4fb9-908b-1565b22fb408/artwork/sd-verbs-smarttags.png) |