使用 vscode 对 dotnet core 中的 sln 文件有目的吗？

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Full disclosure, I am a java developer learning dotnet core, on a mac with vscode. I get what the purpose .csporj file is, but I cant seem to find any information on why I need to maintain a .sln file.

Ok so maybe I need to make this more explicit.

I am not using Visual Studio. I am using vscode.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb165951.aspx contains no references to vscode. Everything I found said that the solution file was for Visual Studio, which to reiterate, I am not using. I updated the title to make this more apparent.

So is there a purpose for the solution file in vscode?

Answer 1

The sln is the equivalent of your eclipse work-space in Java, the csproj is the equivalent of a single java package. The sln is used to tie the source code for multiple assemblies together (for example a executable and its dependencies) in to a single project that can be opened as a whole.

You don't need the sln if you are working with a single project (but visual studio will still want to make one when you open a csproj by itself), but if you are working with multiple csproj it is needed to keep the projects together.