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yO_
yO_

Reputation: 1155

Visual Studio: create multiple projects under same solution?

I would create a Visual Studio C solution, with this kind of structure under a parent directory:

Parent/
|
|- SolutionName.sln
|
|- Project1/
|     |
|     |-src/
|        |
|        |- main1.c
|
|- Project2/
     |
     |-src/
        |
        |- main2.c

How to do this please?

Already tried multiple things, like creating a solution then Add Project etc, but this generally ends up with the .sln in one of the subdirectories; which doesn't reflects the solution structure - all projects are under one big .sln umbrella.

There are already on SO a dozen questions around "multiple projects", but no one had answered this simple question.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3002

Answers (2)

Alb
Alb

Reputation: 529

You probably figured out in the past 5 years, but here is the answer:

To have one big .sln umbrella, you need to make sure the "Place solution and project in the same directory" checkbox is unchecked:

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Otherwise you end up with this:

repos
|- Project1/
|    |- Project1.sln
|    |-src/
|       |- main1.c
|- Project2/
     |-src/
        |- main2.c

As you see, when the checkbox is checked, you are not able to change the solution name:

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This relates with your "creating a dummy project, then delete it" issue. When the checkbox is unchecked, just change the Solution Name:

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Upvotes: 0

AndersK
AndersK

Reputation: 36082

When you create your first project and solution, the solution gets the name of the first project. Any projects added later are stored under that name.

MyFirstProject
   +---------------MyFirstProject
   +---------------MySecondProject
...

The parent dir, MyFirstProject contains the .sln file, the subdirs contain the project files.

I would suggest you follow the general setup that Visual Studio uses instead of creating your own custom one for convenience.

Upvotes: 2

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