Working with Projects and Solutions

Each time you want to develop an application, you create a project. A project is a collection of files, such as code files, resources, data, and all the other files you need to build your final assembly. A Visual Basic project is represented by a .vbproj file, which is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file that contains all the information required by Visual Studio to manage files that constitute your project.

Projects are organized into solutions. A solution is basically a container for projects. In fact, solutions can contain infinite projects of different kinds, such as Visual Basic projects, projects produced with programming languages other than Visual Basic, class libraries, projects for Windows client ...

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