[dba-VB] Projects vs Solutions

John --

Just make an experiment with a test solution from scratch:

- start VS;
- create C# Console project - TestConsole - that will create a project
TestConsole and a solution - TestConsole;
- File->New->Project... - create C# Class Library project - MyClassLib1;
- File->New->Project... - create C# Class Library project - MyClassLib2;
- ...
- Right-Click TestConsole project in Solution Explorer -> Add Reference ->
[Projects] (third tab) -> Select MyClassLib1;
- ...
- now in TestConsole Program.cs you can type:

using MyClassLib1;

and you'll have Class1 (from MyClassLib1 - MyclassLib1.Class1) available to
Intellisense....


--
Shamil 

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Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:41 PM
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Projects vs Solutions

OK, let's back up a minute.

I created a project InfoEngine.  I created another project ScanCSVForErrors.
I created another 
project MergePurge.  Etc.

Each one of these is both a solution and a project.  What I mean by that is
that when you open 
Visual Studio you "Create" projects, at least unless you do some unknown
thing.  There is no "New 
Solution", there is only "new project".

Except that:

a) I really want the Solution to be InfoEngine.
b) I would PREFER that the other projects be physically stored under
InfoEngine.
c) Of course I want these projects to be considered by the SOLUTION
InfoEngine to belong to the 
solution InfoEngine.
d) Each of these "projects" contains a solution file.  So what is it, a
solution or a project?

Is this a "start over stupid" kind of moment?  Is it just me or is this
whole Solution / Project 
thing extremely poorly defined?  Why do we discuss Solutions and can't even
purposely create one? 
Why does a project get a solution file if it is a project?  What the hell IS
a solution?  Where are 
the tools for migrating existing projects into a solution?

By the by, I have a solution explorer up and it contains two projects now,
but I can't reference, 
EVEN PURPOSELY directly in code, objects in one project from the other
project.  It just tells me 
"doesn't exist".

And so... instead of writing a solution (or is that a project?  Or perhaps a
project in a 
solution???), I walk around the forest in circles.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Charlotte Foust wrote:
> A project IS part of the solution.  The solution is the outer namespace
for the application.  It contains projects.  Your current situation is the
way we do it (I think).  The several projects don't contain references to
one another unless you create them by right clicking the project and select
Add Reference.
> 
> Charlotte Foust


 

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