Projects, Solutions and Files (How Do I in Visual J# Express) 

This page links to help on widely used J# project tasks. To view other categories of popular tasks covered in Help, see How Do I in Visual J# Express.

• How to: Create or Add a Setup Project
  Explains two types of setup projects; standard setup projects create installers that install Windows applications on a target computer; Web setup projects create installers that install Web applications on a Web server.

• How to: Specify Assembly Information
  Explains how to specify assembly information, which is entered in the Assembly Information dialog box.

• How to: Identify How a Project Manages Files
  Describes the location of project files and how you can manage them.

• How to: Set Build Properties (C#, J#)
  Explains how to set build properties by using the Build Pane and the Build Events Pane of the Visual Studio Project Designer.

• How to: Create Multi-Project Solutions
  Explains how you can easily share numerous and related source-controlled projects by creating them under a common solution directory.

Projects and Files

• How to: Add Files to a Project
  Explains how you can add existing files to a project using the Application Builder or Project Manager.

• How to: Rename a File or Project
  Explains how to rename elements of the project.

• How to: Manage Files with Encoding
  Explains how to display your code in a particular language and on a particular platform by associating a particular character encoding with a file.

• How to: Remove Files from Projects
  Explains how to remove files from your project or delete them using the Project Manager.

• How to: Create a Project from Existing Code Files
  Shows you how to create a project from existing code files and work with this project in the Visual Studio integrated development environment.

• Adding Project and Project Item Templates
  Explains how to design a project to open files belonging to that project with a project-specific editor.

Project Types

• How to: Create a Console Application Client
  Describes creating an XML Web service console client application

• How to: Create a New Swing Application
  Demonstrates many of the Swing features and how they can interoperate with the AWT library.

• How to: Create a Component that Runs in the Browser
  Shows you how to create a library component, add it to a Web page, and deploy the component on a Web site.

Solutions

• How to: Create Multi-Project Solutions
  Explains how you can add either a new project or an existing project to a solution.

References

• How to: Add and Remove Web References
  Shows you how to add or remove a Web reference, including a code example.

• Add Reference Dialog Box
  Shows you how to use the Add Reference dialog box.

• Troubleshooting Broken References
  Describes strategies for correcting the error that occurs if your application attempts to use a broken reference.

• Web References
  Shows you how to manage project Web references by renaming or modifying them to suit your needs or by updating them when changes have been made to the Web service the reference calls.

• How to: Add or Remove References in Visual Studio
  Explains how to use a component in your application by first adding a reference to it.

• How to: Reference a COM Object
  Explains how to reference a COM object by using the Add or Remove Reference dialog box.

Building and Compiling

• How to: Set Start Options for Application Debugging
  Explains how to specify additional actions to be taken when the project goes into run mode. The Debug pane of the Project Designer contains three Start Option properties to do that.

• Building in Visual Studio
  Explains how you can edit default solution and project configurations as needed, and create new configurations by saving modified copies of the default ones

• How to: Set Project Properties (C#, J#)
  Shows how a project's properties specify how a project is built and debugged.

Resources

• Walkthrough: Localizing Windows Forms
  Shows how the Visual Studio project system provides considerable support for localizing Windows Forms applications.

• Working with Resource Files
  Shows how to add new resources to your project and modify those resources using the appropriate resource editor.

See Also

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