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Now, in the previous video I talked about solutions and projects and I only did it in a text-based way in PowerPoint to try to kind of get your head around how these things relate and now I want to show you what they actually look like in Visual Studio and how you're going to use them. Notice, if you remember, I don't know, back I think when we started a Visual Studio tour a few videos back, we just went out and created a C# project. Now if we look over here in the Solution Explorer, I'm going to show you how this actually maps out in real life. Now, all the Solution Explorer is or all a solution is is a collection of all your files and it just organizes them for you in one place as a group out on your hard disk. Now, notice my Windows Form Application that I named this is my solution name and inside the solution I have a project that was there by default. Now, I can put other projects and this allows me to group information out there or to group these various coding files on my hard disk together in a folder. So for now, notice I have a solution called Windows Forms Application 1 and a project called Form Application 1. What I'm going to do is right click on the solution and say Add a New Project and notice this is going to take me right back out here and I will call this Second Project and I will click OK and you will notice that it put it inside this particular solution and then I can right click on it and set this as the start-up project if this is where I want this program to actually start running and so forth. But what I want you to see here is if I save all this and then I go out and I'm just going to minimize this and I'm going to go into My Documents now and you'll notice there is a Visual Studio Folder out here and if I open that, you'll notice there's backup files, code snippets, but notice projects. So if I open Projects, you will see there is my Windows Forms Application 1 Project and if I double click it, you will see there's that first project, Windows Forms Application 1 and there are my files for it. So there's my Form 1 CS and there's my Designer CS. That's all the raw files for it. I'll go back now and there's my second project and if I open it, there are the forms and so forth for that. So ultimately what this Solution Explorer is doing for you, it is allowing you to see things in an organized, related manner over here and then it is keeping them organized for you on the hard disk. I just wanted you to see this. Now, there's something else you need to see up here. If you mouse over these various icons, I can click Show All Files and it will show me even more information. And again, I'll let you go look at some other resources or again, that excellent Visual Studio 2008 video series that I did. You can go look at that as well. But anyway, end of shameless marketing once again. Just wanted you to understand Solution Explorer and the projects and how they relate to each other. We'll get off of Visual Studio now. We'll start to concentrate on C Sharp and start to jump into introducing you to C#, talking about C# 2008, actually getting our hands on programming with this thing.