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Project Properties (Visual Studio)

The project is the starting point for authoring applications, components, and services in Visual Studio 2008. It acts as a container that manages your source code, data connections, and references. A project is organized as part of a solution, which can contain multiple projects that are interdependent of each other. The topics in this section describe the various tasks involved in creating and managing Visual Basic, and Visual C# projects.

Managing Project Properties with the Project Designer

Provides information about how to access and modify project properties.

Local and Web Projects

Explains the important differences between these two project models.

File Properties


Default Project Templates in Visual Studio

Provides a list of the types of projects that can be created by using project templates.

Referencing Namespaces and Components


Resource File Naming Conventions


Configuring Applications Using Dynamic Properties


File Types and File Extensions in Visual Basic and Visual C#

Lists and describes the file name extensions for all files available in Visual Basic and Visual C# projects.

Project Management for Visual Basic 6.0 Users

Summarizes how Visual Basic 2008 projects differ from Visual Basic 6.0 projects.

Deciding Which Technologies and Tools To Use

Provides a graphical, linked guide to decisions about how to design your application.

Debugging in Visual Studio


Tracing and Instrumenting Applications

Describes how to monitor the execution of your application when it is running.

Build Configurations

Describes options for building and deploying solutions and projects.

Building in Visual Studio

Gives an overview of creating standard and custom builds from the IDE.

Devenv Command Line Switches

Provides the standard command-line switches for Visual Studio.

Visual Basic Compiler

Provides compiler command-line options for Visual Basic.

C# Compiler Options

Provides compiler options for Visual C#.

How to: Refresh Items in Solution Explorer

Describes how to incorporate changes that were made by other users into your project.

How to: Add New Project Items

Provides step-by-step instructions about how to add new project items.

Introduction to Solutions, Projects, and Items

Gives an overview of solutions and projects.

Setup and Deployment Projects


How to: Remove, Delete, and Exclude Items


Web Pages and Projects

Discusses Visual Studio project constructs for Web applications.