>Hi Viv,
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>>IIRC, ff you choose 'Build' then only projects that have changed are rebuilt
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>Sure, however, Visual Studio still checks if a project has changed which depending on the size of the project can take some time. It's worse for mobile projects, though, where the default is to deploy the project. That really takes time.
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>> But I also prefer keeping the 'control' project out of the solution - mainly to remove the temptation to start adding functionality that's only relevant to the projects that reference it in the current solution :-{
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>When I started using .NET I usually had one solution with many projects. Over the years I reduced the number of projects per solution more and more. In the beginning I saw the solution as "the solution", the thing I need to build. Now a solution is just the collection of the minimum number of projects; usually one main project and a few accompanying projects such as tests. It's one of the rare occasions where the localized name is actually more appropriate than the English name. In German a solution file is called a project folder (Projektmappe).

Hi,
I started the same way and am moving in the same direction. In some ways 'Project Folder' is a better name than 'Solution' - neither seems quite right but I must admit I can't think of a better one. IAC, once you understand what it's really doing I guess the name doesn't matter :-}
Regards,
Viv