Visual C# 2008 Express Solution-Project Hierarchy

[franknagy]

Gentle list members,
I have started to type in and modify according to my taste the examples in a tutorial of C# [Sipos Marianna: Programozás élesben. Language Hungarian, ISBN: 963 216 652 3].
I use Visual C# 2008 Express Edition.
I have put the first two exercises as Projects in the same Solution. The problem is that I have to mark and unmark again and again which is the executable project.

• I want to share e. g. the form design but handle the events of controls in different ways in the first and the second project.
• I'd like to use the same language dependent string resources in more than one projects.

Recommend me the simplest way to do this.
Regards
Frank

[GaryTexmo]

I may be wrong here, but I'm not sure that you can do this. A solution can only have one startup project at a time. This is the project that runs when you start debugging. That said, a solution can build many executables at once.

Right click on your project and set the Output Type to Windows Application or Console Application as appropriate. This will generate an executable. Now just build your entire solution (right-click the solution, rebuild). Now in your bin directory you should see all the executables your solution builds.

As for sharing a resource file, just set your project up to point to that. Either add an existing file or open it in code via a relative path.