What's the difference between a Solution and a Project?

[Kruelgor]

A little Modbuddy 101 question here? Might as well get these easy questions out of the way.

What's the difference between a Solution and a Project?

I'm thinking a solution is the final mod? and a project is the mod in progress? I guess, is that right?

 

[cephalo]

Well, in a visual studio sense, a solution contains one or more projects that act together toward some goal.

 

[Szpilman]

I don't know much at all about Projects and Solutions, because I've never actually done a multi-project solution (in my C# programming). This last sentence is my answer: a solution can have multiple projects. One doesn't replace the other, both are needed and they compose a hierarchy. Note that this might not be doable or useful in Civ5 modding, but ModBuddy is a skin of Visual Studio, and it has this capability for organization, having multiple projects under a single solution.

I'm sure many people will have much more comprehensive answers, from which I will benefit as well

 

[Zebul]

As cephalo and Szpilman said. An example would be a solution containing separate projects for the client and server parts of an application. With maybe an additional project for shared code.

I suspect one project per solution will be enough for most Civ V mods.

 

[ArgentumStudios]

If you are planning to build a collection of mods that are related to each other, it may be a good idea to have the projects for all of them in a single solution. But I agree that for most mods right now, one project per solution is all that is needed.