The Solution Explorer

The Solution Explorer enables you to group and manage the many files that make up your application. A solution simply contains multiple projects (applications). A project groups files related to its type. For instance, you can create a website, Windows Form application, class library, console application, and more. The files inside the project containers represent your code in terms of web pages, forms, class files, XML, and other related items.

Figure 2.17 shows the Solution Explorer undocked from the IDE. Note that a single solution is open (you might only have one solution open at a time), and the solution contains a few applications (called projects). One is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application (TimeTrackingInterface); ...

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