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Does the Express Version support adding multiple soultions (.sln) to a project or is this only available with the Professional version.
I see that I can add a DLL as a reference that was built in 2010, but it is not letting me step into it with the debugger (or recompile changes to its source).
Any help is appreciated.
You add multiple projects to a solution, not the other way around.
If you point to a dll on disk then you will use that, so obviously won't have any code loaded for it. You can add the project to your solution then remove and re-add the dll reference as a project reference instead to get what you need.
I've never used the Express version so I can't really give you an answer to your question. Instead I just wanted to explain that you do not add multiple solutions to a project but rather add multiple projects to one solution.
Click on the File menu and see if you find an Add submenu and if that includes menu items such as New Project and Existing Project.
Thanks guys for the reply. However, I do not see a Add Project to the list of menu items (as there is in 2003 Professional Version). There are items to add existing items, but it will not take a .sln file and add that as a project to the solution.
Like has been said, you add the project file to your solution, which is the .vbproj file. You have to click the solution in the solution explorer or the file menu. If you have a project selected you will get the options of what you can add to a project. You need to add to the solution, ie File->Add->Existing Project.
The soulution explorer does NOT show a solution, only my project. I opened up another 2010 Express project that I have and it does show a solution at the top of the Solution Explorer (with 3 projects in it - created in 2003 professional and converted to 2010 Express).
I am asking why I only see a project and not a solution? I am add bmps if needed.
So you have proved that you can open solutions in express and that for some reason this particular project does not show a solution. I can not make it happen what ever I try, bring forth the screen shots!
Do you open via the sln file?
BMPs in zip file. Yes, thru sln file.
Here ya go: where-did-the-solution-in-solution-explorer-go
Did the File->Add menu not exist either, I can see why you could not find it in the explorer, but would have thought you can at least add one from the file menu to allow you to work with it.
Edit: Just turned the option off and tried it myself, I could add a project using the File-Add menu option but no method in the context inside the solution explorer which is what I would expect
Excellent - Thanks very much!!!
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