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Project Properties (Visual Studio)

Visual Studio 2010

The project is the starting point for authoring applications, components, and services in Visual Studio 2010. 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

Managing Project Properties with the Project Designer: Provides information about how to access and modify project properties.
Local and Web Projects: Explains the important differences between these two project models.
File Properties: Describes property settings that indicate what actions the project system should perform on the files.
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

Default Project Templates in Visual Studio: Provides a list of the types of projects that can be created by using project templates.
Referencing Namespaces and Components: Provides links to topics about adding, removing, fixing, and managing project references.
File Types and File Extensions in Visual Basic and Visual C#: Lists and describes the file name extensions for all files available in Visual Basic and Visual C# projects.
Debugging in Visual Studio: Describes how to resolve logic and semantic errors by using the Visual Studio Debugger.
Tracing and Instrumenting Applications: Describes how to monitor the execution of your application when it is running.
Build Configurations: Describes options for building and deploying solutions and projects.
Building in Visual Studio: Gives an overview of creating standard and custom builds from the IDE.
Devenv Command Line Switches: Provides the standard command-line switches for Visual Studio.
Visual Basic Command-Line Compiler: Provides compiler command-line options for Visual Basic.
C# Compiler Options: Provides compiler options for Visual C#.
How to: Refresh Items in Solution Explorer: Describes how to incorporate changes that were made by other users into your project.
How to: Add New Project Items: Provides step-by-step instructions about how to add new project items.
Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items: Gives an overview of solutions and projects.
Setup and Deployment Projects: Recommends which kind of deployment project to use for your application or component.
How to: Remove, Delete, and Exclude Items: Provides instructions for how to remove, delete, or exclude items in Visual Studio.