Managing Projects

Just as with solutions, Solution Explorer provides various ways to manage projects within a solution. They include these:

• Opening a project item

• Building or rebuilding a project

• Adding items to a project

• Adding a reference to a project

• Cutting, pasting, renaming, or deleting a project within the solution tree

• Unloading a project

Note

The current startup project for a solution is indicated with a bold font (as is the OrderEntry project in Figure 5.1). If multiple projects are selected as startup projects, the solution name is instead bolded.

The default action when you double-click an item is to open it within its default editor or designer. Multiple select and drag-and-drop operations are also supported. For instance, ...

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