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I have an asp.net app in visual studio and it's starting to contain quite a few files. I remenber seeing a .sln file format that converts the entire files into one file. How does this work?

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Solution (.SLN) files don't allow you to "package" your project. A solution file is just a list of your sub-projects.

Given that you've tagged this "asp.net", I'm guessing that you've got a "Web Site" project. You might find it easier to manage if you convert it to a "Web Application" project. See this question for more discussion.

In fact, if you've got a "Web Site" project, you've already got a .SLN file. It'll be somewhere under C:\Users\frenchie\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects.

Whatever you do, you're going to end up with a bunch of folders containing a bunch of files. Read up on the differences between Website Projects and Web Application Projects before doing the conversion.

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  • for now, I just have all my files, including the database, in subfolders of a folder located in the root directory of my laptop. I didn't see an sln file. What's the conversion about? – frenchie Jan 17 '11 at 06:10