What are VS.NET solutions and projects?
A Project is a combination of executable and library files that make an application or one of its modules (not a .NET assembly or VB.NET module; simply a separate part of the overall application). A project’s information is usually placed in a file with extension like ‘.vbproj’ where ‘vb’ represents Visual Basic (source programming language) and ‘proj’ stands for Project. Similarly C# projects are stored as ‘.csproj’ file where ‘cs’ stands for C Sharp. There are different kind of projects like Console Application, Windows application, ASP.Net Web Application, Class Library, Windows Control Library, Web Services and others.A solution on the other hand is a placeholder for different logically related projects that make up an application. For example, a solution may consist of ASP.NET Web Application project and Windows Form project. The information for solution is stored in ‘.sln’ files while they can be managed using Visual Studio.NET’s Solution Explorer. Solutions are similar to VB 6’s Project Group and VC++ 6’s workspace.
A great thing about the Visual Studio.NET solutions is that it may contain projects built with any of the VS.NET compliant language. Hence, now your solution may consists of a database handling project in Visual C#, the GUI Application project in VB.NET and the protocol implementation project in VC++.NET!
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