Here is an example of a big Visual Studio.NET solution that contains numerous projects:
Such a big Visual Studio.NET solutions can be organized by grouping related projects into folders. Just right-click on the solution node and choose Add | New Solution Folder to add a Solution Folder. Then just Drag'n'Drop projects into this folder.
This also will allow you to do some operations on a group of projects. For example, unload all projects in a Solution Folder, collapse or hide entire Solution Folder so that you can work easily in Solution Explorer in Visual Studio.NET.
There is a bug in Visual Studio 2005 which means that any project containing WinForm controls in a solution folder wont have those controls shown in the toolbox. On the connect bug report (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=114542) it' isn't clear if this was fixed in SP1 but it definatly exists pre-SP1.
AndyJ 12/11/2007 3:42:32 PM
won't this break VSS?
codemonkey 12/11/2007 7:49:37 PM
We had to undo this when we migrated to Team Foundation Server. It is one of several Windows programs that can't handle full filenames with paths exceeding 256 characters.
DOK 12/11/2007 9:17:56 PM