Visual Studio Hacks

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Chapter 1, Master Projects and Solutions

#1 Manage Projects and Solutions

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that allows you to avoid starting from scratch. The checkbox specifies

whether you want to also create new project configurations. In this exam-

ple, you are going to use the default debug and release configurations, so

you don’t need to create any new project configurations, which will be

discussed under “Project settings,” later in this hack. Uncheck this check-

box. After clicking the OK button, you will see your new configuration in

the Configuration Manager. You can then configure the HacksLib project

to be built in release mode and the HacksWinApp project to be built in

debug mode or any other combination that you wish.

Projects

Projects are one of the most important parts of working with Visual Studio.

Projects contain any number of source files that are compiled into some kind

Figure 1-5. New Solution Configuration dialog

Solution Items

Solutions normally contain only projects, but you can also add miscellaneous

items to your solutions. These items must be files that you don’t want to be

compiled. This could be project documentation, Visio documents,

stylesheets, or any other documents that might not be directly linked to a par-

ticular project but relevant to the entire solution. You can even include code

files (.vb, .cs, etc.). They won’t be compiled, but if you wanted to include

examples, this would be a perfect ...