Managing Solutions, Projects, and Files

Visual Studio 2010

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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.

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.