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.

In This Section

• 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
  Describes property settings that indicate what actions the project system should perform on the files.

• 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
  Provides links to topics about adding, removing, fixing, and managing project references.

• Resource File Naming Conventions
  Provides links to information about XML and non-XML assembly-manifest resource files.

• Configuring Applications Using Dynamic Properties
  Describes how to configure your projects so that some project properties are stored to a configuration file instead of inside the compiled code.

Related Sections

• 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
  Describes how to resolve logic and semantic errors by using the Visual Studio Debugger.

• 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
  Recommends which kind of deployment project to use for your application or component.

• How to: Remove, Delete, and Exclude Items
  Provides instructions for how to remove, delete, or exclude items in Visual Studio.

• Web Pages and Projects
  Discusses Visual Studio project constructs for Web applications.