Title: Visual Studio Project Structure
Course: CPS 120: Introduction to Computer Science ~ Master (Aug/2015) OLD > Section: Learning Units

- Creating a Visual Studio project results in a hierarchy of directories and files.
- All the directories and files are stored in the directory named when the project was created.
- The directory and file structure for a Visual C++ console application, for example, will look similar to this:
<project-name>
<project-name>           ← contains several files including code
<Debug>                      ← used when running debugger
<Release>                    ← used when running without debugger
<project-name>.sdf         ← internal database file
<project-name>.sln         ← Visual Studio solution file
<project-name>.suo        ← Visual Studio solution user options
- The main access point to a Visual Studio project is the solution (*.sln) file.
- The main files within a Visual C++ application are the source code (*.cpp) files.