Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Working with Project Definition Files

As with solutions, projects maintain their structure information inside a file. These files have different extensions depending on their underlying language. For instance, Visual Basic project files have a .vbproj extension, and Visual C# project files have a .csproj extension.

Each project definition file contains all the information necessary to describe the source files and the various project properties and options. This includes the following:

• Build configurations

• Project references and dependencies

• Source code file locations/types

Visual Basic and Visual C# project definition files are based on the same schema. Listing 4.2 contains a snippet from a Visual C# project definition file.

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