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Use folder view in Solution Explorer

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Use folder view in Solution Explorer

- [Instructor] We've seen that the solution and project files are the primary way that we define our software projects. In reality our projects have files on the hard drive, and it can be useful to look at the folders and files. In Solution Explorer, there are several ways that we can look at the folder view. I'll start by looking at the traditional way of doing it. Pick one of the nodes in the Solution Explorer, Right click and choose Open Folder in File Explorer. Now remember, I was in the Solution node, so that's the scope of the folder that's in File Explorer. So here you can see that's that Example.sln file. I can do the same thing but for one of the projects. Before I do that, though, let's take a look at what we have in the Project. I've got a Properties folder, with an AssemblyInfo.cs file. And I've got several text files and a C# file here. So right click, do the same action. This time it's scoped to the RobotNameGenerator folder. I see all those files. If I drill down into…

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