Using Solution Explorer

Solution Explorer enables you to view items and perform item management tasks in a solution or project. It also allows you to use the Visual Studio Editor to work with files outside the solution or project context.

Solution Explorer is the area of your integrated development environment (IDE) that contains your solution to help you manage your project files. Files appear in a hierarchical view that is very similar to Windows Explorer. By default, Solution Explorer is located on the right side of the IDE.

One:Visual Studio: How to remove, delete, and exclude items

The process of removing items from the outcome scenarios, projects, and folders in Solution Explorer is straightforward.

removal, deletion, and exclusion describe the extent to which the item is disassociate from the project or solution, respectively.

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Disassociate an item from a solution, project, or folder without removing its physical file removal

To associate exclusions with a project temporarily

Permanently erase files in the physical store and files in a solution, project, or folder delete

II:How Visual Studio: Unload and Reload Projects

You can temporarily make projects in your solution unavailable, and then restore those items to a usable state.

Uninstalling the project from the solution

1. In Solution Explorer, select the project that you want to uninstall from the active solution.

2. On the Project menu, select Unload Project.

3. Right-click the project in Solution Explorer and select Unload Project.

When the project is unloaded, the item is marked as unavailable

To load a project from the new solution

1. In Solution Explorer, select a project in the active solution that is marked as unavailable.

2. On the Project menu, select Reload Project.

3. Right-click the project in Solution Explorer and select Unload Project.