Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Solution and Project Objects

The Solution object represents the currently loaded solution. The individual projects within the solution are available via Project objects returned within the Solution.Projects collection. Items within a project are accessed in a similar fashion through the Project.ProjectItems collection.

As you can see from Figure 13.1, this hierarchy exactly mirrors the solution/project hierarchy that we first discussed in Chapter 4, “Solutions and Projects.”

Figure 13.1 Mapping the solution/project hierarchy.

There are some mismatches here—solution folders, for instance, are treated as projects—but for the most part, the object ...