Managing Solutions, Projects, and Files

The following topics describe common tasks you can perform when working with solutions and projects.

In This Section

• Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items
  Understand the concepts of solutions, projects, and items as well as the advantages of using Visual Studio to manage your development projects and files.

• Project Properties (Visual Studio)
  Discusses the Project Designer and how to modify project settings.

• Multi-Project Solutions
  Work on more than one project at a time within one instance of the integrated development environment (IDE).

• Stand-Alone Projects
  Understand what stand-alone projects are and when you can work with them.

• Temporary Projects
  Understand what temporary projects are and when you can work with them.

• Visual Studio Templates
  Provides an overview the project and item template architecture and implementation.

• Targeting a Specific .NET Framework Version or Profile
  Describes how to enable your projects to target a specific version of the .NET Framework.

• Solution, Project, and File User Interface Elements
  Reference for user interface elements that enable you to configure your solutions, projects, and files.

Related Sections

• Getting Started with Visual Studio
  Contains information on migrating applications, and the walkthroughs and samples available to increase your familiarity with Visual Studio.

• Editing Text, Code, and Markup
  Explains how to use the Code Editor.

• Globalizing and Localizing Applications
  Explains how to incorporate encoding standards such as ANSI, Unicode, and others.

• Creating and Managing Visual C++ Projects
  Explains how to work with files in projects specific to Visual C++.

• File Installation Management in Deployment
  Explains how to use the File System Editor to manage distribution of your files.

• File Types Management in Deployment
  Explains how to control how a target computer reads and implements files based on file extensions.

• How to: Add a Project to Source Control
  Explains how to apply Source Control to manage versions of your solutions and projects.