FileView
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The FileView pane shows relationships among the projects and files included in the project workspace. The relationships in FileView are logical relationships, not physical relationships, and do not reflect the organization of files on your hard disk.
FileView shows the relationships of the source files and the dependent files used to build all project configurations. The active project in the workspace is indicated in FileView by bold type. The active configuration determines which set of build options is used when you build the active project. The active project is the project that will be built when you use the commands Build or Rebuild All. You can select a different active configuration by using the Set Active Configuration command on the Build menu. You can select a different active project by using the Set Active Project command on the Project menu.
Note The External Dependencies folder lists files that are not part of the project but that are needed to build the project. You can add a file to the project by simply dragging it from the External Dependencies folder to any of the project folders, or to any top-level project node.
Using FileView with the Visual Database Tools
Important: Feature Only Available with Visual Database Tools Database projects and related features are supported only when the Visual Database Tools are installed. These features include the Data View pane and the use of FileView to view items in database projects. Visual Database Tools are included with the Visual C++ Enterprise Edition. For more information, see or .
The FileView pane provides a graphical environment for creating, viewing, and editing local files in a database project. Your database projects appear in the FileView pane as a tree.
In the FileView pane you can:
View the files and folders in your database projects.
Manage your files. For example, you can add, move, copy, and delete files.
The FileView pane lists the following items:
Database Project
Data Connection
Database Query
The FileView pane also lists all of the files and folders for each data source in your database projects. You can expand each folder to see the files that are stored inside. This feature is especially useful for managing your files. For example, you can:
Open a folder that contains a file you want to move or copy.
Select a file and move or copy it into another folder.
Double-click a file to open it in the application workspace.
Create, rename, or delete folders.
Create or delete files.
If you want to view only files and folders for a specific database project, you can collapse the database projects that you don’t want to see. You can also choose which project you want to set as the active database project.
For more information about the database objects you can manage in the FileView pane, see Microsoft .
In addition to the FileView pane, you can use the Data View pane to create, view, and edit files residing on a remote database server as part of a database project. The Data View pane is visible as a tab in the Project Workspace window when your database project is connected to a data source. The Data View pane is available only with the Visual Database Tools.