| You will usually edit your solutions' and projects' properties with the IDE. However, at times you may want to look inside these files or write a tool that processes the contents of solution and project files. Fortunately, most of the properties of a solution and its projects are kept in simple text files, enabling you to edit these files directly if you so desire . Make sure you close the solution before editing any of these files, to avoid VS.NET overwriting your changes the next time it saves the solution. | | The structure of these files is not documented, and manual editing is not supported. We describe them here because it provides a useful insight into the inner workings of VS.NET projects and solutions. You will not normally need to edit these files and should exercise caution if you attempt to do so. | | |