1.5 Conclusion

Projects and solutions are at the core of any work you do with Visual Studio .NET. Projects represent individual components or applications. Solutions are collections of related projects. Solutions can manage the dependencies between projects, ensuring that components are built in the correct order and copied into the right places. Of course, a solution and its projects would be of no use at all if they didn't contain source code of some kind, so in the next chapter we will look at the features in Visual Studio .NET designed to help you edit individual files.