VS 2005 and multiple projects.

VS 2005 and multiple projects.

• Adiraz

  In general, I make heavy use of multiple projects within VS2005. I tend to split my business logic and objects into one project, and the UIs (be they web, desktop or mobile apps) into their own individual projects. This approach allows me to reuse the "plumbing" code across multiple UIs, allowing to deploy multiple tightly-integrated projects to form a larger solution.
  
  

• Mihir101

  Actually, my question isn't if VS 2005 can have multiple projects, it's whether there has been some sort of philosophical shift from multiple projects back to 1 project, or very few projects. It's mostly because a developer I'm working with brought this up (I don't know where he got it from yet) and I'm trying to find info to refute it because I frankly don't believe it.
  

• dotcom23

  Not as far as I know - The only thing you *may* want is to ship less DLLs (but that doesn't have to mean fewer projects). During development it is much easier to have separate projects for non-dependent chunks

  Arnon

  
  
  

• Simon Clark

  you CAN have multiple projects in one solution under vs2005.

  You must consider that your programmer is a penguin (you know, all day thinking in how to put linux/java in your company :))

  
  
  

• anarbek

  Kris Kramer wrote:

  I was told by someone that Visual Studio 2005 has moved away from multiple projects in a solution. I don't believe this for a second, but I wanted to see if 1) it really was true and 2) if there is any info I could draw from to counter that argument. Also, do many of you consider the information in this article: (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/designnetapp.asp) a bit outdated And by outdated I don't mean unusable, I just mean that it seems a bit simplistic for many projects.

  Umm you can certainly create multiple projects in a VS 2k5 solution ... I can post a screen shot if you need one :D Although I tend to limit my projects within a solution to functional groupings and use Nant to do my building for me.

  I agree that this article is not very sophisticated but I fear this is more of a social problem with .NET as opposed to a technical one. I would wager that because you are questioning the article you are probably within the top 25% of developers. Unfortunately the top 25% are not really the ones who need such articles ;) They think about such things as coupling as opposed to finding some code that works on a website some place and copy/paste reusing it into their own code. I find master pages to be a similar concept targetted towards a different type of development. I put up some arguments on master pages here http://geekswithblogs.net/gyoung/archive/2006/01/24/66892.aspx

  Cheers,

  Greg

   

  
  

• JTechOnlineGuy

  I can not imagine that there has been. With things like inversion of control finally becoming mainstream in the .NET community this would be quite counter-intuitive :) Frankly I find the idea obsurd although I would be very interested in hearing any supporting evidence. In fact I would say they are moving more in the direction of seperation (take the gratuitous use of the provider pattern).

  Cheers,

  Greg

  
  
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