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• How do I specify the start up project for a solution or application in Visual Studio?

  In the Solution Explorer right click on the project that should be the start up project for your application and choose the Set As Start Up Project option. Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ

• How do I change the build order of projects in a solution in Visual Studio?

  You can set the build order of the projects by right clicking on the Solution and choosing Project Build Order and adjusting the dependencies on the Dependencies tab in the Project Dependencies window that pops up. Contributed from George Shepherd's...

• How do I share a file between projects without having Visual Studio make a copy of the file in each project?

  Whenever I share files between projects it appears that Visual Studio.NET copies the files over into the new project. I want to just share the file and not have it copied over. Is there any way to do this? When you add an existing item from with the Visual...

• How do I convert an application project to class library project, and vice versa?

  In the Solutions Explorer window, right-click the exe project and then select Properties in the popup. Then change the Output type from Windows Application to Class Library. You may also want to comment out the Main method in your code as it is not needed...

• How do I open a Visual Studio .NET 2003 project using Visual Studio .NET 2002?

  See the article A Utility to Convert VS.NET 2003 Project Files on The Code Project . Contributed from George Shepherd's Windows Forms FAQ