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Introducing projects and solutions

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Introducing projects and solutions

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- [Instructor] You can't work in Visual Studio without encountering the solution and project concept. They are fundamental to the way Visual Studio loads and compiles the projects. Let's start with the concept of a Visual Studio solution. At its most fundamental, it is a file on your computer with the file extension .sln. When you start working on a code project you open the solution file. Stored within the file is the minimum version number of Visual Studio required to open the solution. Also stored in the file is the preferred version of Visual Studio for this solution. This is useful if you happen to have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed on your computer. When you open a Visual Studio 2015 solution file it opens in Visual Studio 2015. Other versions of the solution file open in their associated Visual Studio IDEs. Also included in the solution file is a list of projects. When the solution is opened, Visual Studio loads every project in the list into the IDE and shows…

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