- In a Nutshell
- Task List
- Solutions, Projects and Stuff
- Solution And Project Properties
- Add an Icon
- 1 Set the Application Icon Property
- 2 Build the Application
- 3 Set the Window Property
- Did it Work?
- One More Time...
- Take Control
- Arranging Windows
- More Than Editing...
- List Members
- Parameter Information
- Road Maps
- Review
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Solutions, Projects and Stuff
Solutions are like filing cabinets that hold and manage Projects and other files. Easy enough in principle, but what exactly does that mean? Why would you have more than one Project? What are these “other files”, and what exactly does “manage” mean? Let’s look at some examples of the kinds of files you might include in a Solution.
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Projects have multiple files, as well. You’ll have code and designer files, of course, you’ve already seen that, but Visual Studio will also allow you to associate other files with the project, just to keep them handy.
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Put on Your Thinking Hat
Find at least two ways to add a Project to a Solution, and two ways to add a file to a Project.
How’d You Do?
The problem was to figure out how to add Solutions and files....
To Add a Project to a Solution
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To Add a File to a Project
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On Your Own
You know how to add an item to a Project, and you know how to configure a simple WPF window, so let’s put those two things together. Change your Hello, World application to display a window instead of a MessageBox:
- Add a new window to the Project. Accept the default name of Window1.
- Drag a Label from the Toolbox to the window design surface, and configure the window and label properties however you like. Have some fun! You can’t hurt anything.
- Display the code for the original form (NOT the one you just created). If the form is open, you can double-click the button or press F7. If the form isn’t open, you can right-click the form name in the Solution Explorer and choose Show Code.
Delete the line that displays the MessageBox, and replace it with the following:
- Run the application by pressing F5, and then click the button on the first form.
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Take a Break
Why don’t you take a quick break before we move on to controlling the way Solutions and Projects behave by setting their properties.