Summary

Solutions and projects are the primary vehicles within Visual Studio for organizing and managing your code. They allow you to divide and conquer large solutions, and they provide a single point of access for various settings (at both the solution and project levels). Solutions are the top-level container and the first work item that Visual Studio creates when creating a new code project.

In this chapter, you learned the following about solutions:

Image Solutions can be built (triggering a build of each of its projects) but cannot be compiled.

Visual Studio can load only one solution at a time; to work on multiple solutions concurrently, you ...

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