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Overview: Working with Projects

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In Microsoft Visual C++, the Project Workspace is a container for your development projects. When you create a new project, a workspace is created at the same time. You use the Project Workspace window to view and access the various elements of your projects.

After you have created a project workspace, you can add:

The workspace directory is the root directory for the project workspace. The projects you add to the project workspace can be located on other paths, even on a different drive.

What do you want to know more about?

Project workspace files

Project workspace views

Elements of project workspaces

Project types

Subprojects

Project configurations

Building a project configuration

Platform types

Customizing a build process

What do you want to do?

Work with projects and files

Work with subprojects

Use project folders

Work with project configurations

Build a project

Build a project at the command Line

Use custom build rules