Project Types

Visual Studio includes several project types for languages such as Visual C# and Visual Basic. Visual Studio also lets you create your own project types.

In This Section

• Project Type Essentials
  Presents the important information that you must have to start working with project types.

• Creating Project Types
  Discusses the design of project types.

• Walkthrough: Adding a Command to the Solution Explorer Toolbar (C#)
  Details the steps that you must follow to add a button to the Visual Studio Solution Explorer toolbar.

• How to: Add Web Services to Project Systems
  Shows how to integrate Web services into your VSPackage project system.

• How to: Rename Project Hierarchy Nodes (C++)
  Shows how to rename a project folder hierarchy node.

• Adding Project and Project Item Templates
  Discusses how you can add templates to your project types so that users can create new projects and project items according to a pattern.

• Opening and Saving Project Items
  Provides information about how to manage the items your project type supports.

• Managing Configuration Options
  Discusses how your project types can support configuration options like Debug and Release that control how projects are built, debugged, and so forth.

• Supporting Source Control
  Provides information about how to add support for source-control systems to your project types.

• Nesting Projects
  Explains how your project types can support nesting, so that projects can be grouped together in Solution Explorer.

• Upgrading Projects
  Describes how your project type can participate in the Upgrade Wizard to upgrade project files from an earlier version of Visual Studio.

• Project Types Architecture
  Provides detailed technical information about project types.

Related Sections

• Hierarchies and Selection
  Provides an overview of how the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) displays a project as a hierarchy.

• Project Subtypes
  Provides links to project subtype topics. Project subtypes enable extension of most kinds of project types, including your own.

• Projects (Visual Studio SDK)
  Describes how to extend the Visual Studio project system.