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Controlling Solution Explorer

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The Solution Explorer is a tool window in the Visual Studio .NET IDE that displays a physical, file-based depiction of your solution and its projects and their project items. Like any other tool window in Visual Studio .NET, you can control its physical parameters, such as size, location, and whether it is docked or free-floating. For information on how to manipulate this tool window as well as other Visual Studio .NET tool windows, see Changing Window Characteristics.

In addition, you can use Visual Studio .NET automation model objects to control the contents that display in the Solution Explorer. For information about this, see Controlling Projects and Solutions.

See Also

Creating and Controlling Environment Windows | Creating Add-Ins and Wizards | Creating an Add-In | Creating a Wizard | Automation and Extensibility Reference | Automation Object Model Chart