Managing Projects
Visual Studio .NET 2003
The project is the starting point for authoring applications, components, and services in Visual Studio .NET. It acts as a container that manages your source code, data connections, and references. A project is organized as part of a solution, which can contain multiple projects that are interdependent of each other. The topics in this section describe the various tasks involved in creating and managing Visual Basic and Visual C# projects.
In This Section
- Local vs. Web Projects
- Explains the essential differences between these two project models.
- File Properties
- Describes property settings that indicate what actions the project system should perform on the files.
- Visual Basic and Visual C# Projects
- Provides a list of the types of projects that can be created with project templates.
- Referencing Namespaces and Components
- Provides links to topics about adding, removing, fixing, and managing project references.
- Working with Web Projects
- Provides links to topics about tasks involved in working with Web projects.
- Resource File Naming Conventions
- Provides links to information about XML and non-XML assembly-manifest resource files.
- Configuring Applications Using Dynamic Properties
- Describes how to configure your projects so that some project properties are stored to a configuration file instead of inside the compiled code.
Related Sections
- File Types and File Extensions in Visual Basic and Visual C#
- Lists and describes the file extensions for all files available in Visual Basic and Visual C# projects.
- Project Changes in Visual Basic .NET
- Summarizes how projects are different than they were in Visual Basic 6.0.
- Visual Basic Code Example Topics
- Lists quickstart-like code examples that help you perform common tasks in Visual Basic .NET.
- Decision Chart
- Provides a graphical, linked guide to decisions about designing your application.
- Debugging
- Describes how to resolve logic and semantic errors by using the Visual Studio Debugger.
- Tracing and Instrumenting Applications in Visual Basic and Visual C#
- Describes how to monitor the execution of your application while it is running.
- Build Configurations
- Describes options for building and deploying solutions and projects.
- Default and Custom Builds
- Gives an overview of creating standard and custom builds from within the IDE.
- Devenv Command Line Switches
- Provides the standard command line switches for Visual Studio.
- Visual Basic Compiler Options
- Provides compiler command line options for Visual Basic.
- C# Compiler Options
- Provides compiler options for Visual C#.
- Refreshing Items in Solution Explorer
- Describes how to incorporate changes made by other users into your project.
- What's New in Projects
- Lists and briefly describes the major new Visual Basic project features, including deployment projects.
- Adding New Project Items
- Provides step-by-step instructions on adding new project items.
- Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items
- Gives an overview of solutions and projects.
- Deployment Projects
- Recommends which kind of deployment project to use for your application or component.
- Removing, Deleting, and Excluding Items
- Provides instructions for how to remove, delete, or exclude items in Visual Studio.
- Setting Visual Basic Project Properties
- Provides step-by-step instructions on how to access project properties.
- Setting Visual C# Project Properties
- Provides descriptions of Visual C# project property settings.
- Programming with Office
- Provides information on using Microsoft Office and Visual Studio .NET as part of your business application.
