Working with Project Definition Files
As with solutions, projects maintain their structure information inside a file. These files have different extensions depending on their underlying language. For instance, Visual Basic project files have a .vbproj extension, and Visual C# project files have a .csproj extension.
Each project definition file contains all the information necessary to describe the source files and the various project properties and options. This includes the following:
Build configurations
Project references and dependencies
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