Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Managing Solutions

Clicking on the solution in Solution Explorer immediately exposes all the valid management commands for that solution. You access these commands through either the Solution Explorer toolbar or the context menu for the solution (which you access by right-clicking on the solution). Through the toolbar and the solution’s context menu, the Solution Explorer allows you to do the following:

• View and set the properties for a solution

• Build/rebuild a solution

• Directly launch the configuration manager for a solution

• Set project dependencies and build order

• Add any of the various Visual Studio–supported solution and project items

• Add the solution to the source control

You can initiate some of these actions by using the Solution ...