The embedded client gives you much of the same look and feel as the stand-alone StarTeam Cross-Platform Client. Using the embedded client, you can access some of the more granular features of the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client directly from within the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. You do not need to have a solution open in Microsoft Visual Studio to use the embedded client.
The StarTeam Items and StarTeam Folders panes provide context menus enabling you to access the identical folder and item context menus available in the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client.