August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1224 pages
34h 17m
English
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Chapter 4. Solutions and Projects
Solutions and projects are the containers Visual Studio uses to house and organize the code you write within the IDE. Solutions are virtual containers; they group and apply properties across one or more projects. Projects are both virtual and physical in purpose. Besides functioning as organizational units for your code, they also map one to one with compiler targets. Put another way, Visual Studio turns projects into compiled code. Each project results in the creation of a .NET component (such as a DLL or an EXE file).
In this chapter, we cover the roles of solutions and projects in the development process. We see how to ...