A project in Visual studio must equate (be equal) to something. Is a project in Visual Studio an assembly?

CodePudding user response：

A project in Visual Studio is compiled to something. You're correct: this output is an assembly. The type of this assembly depends on the "Output type" property of the project.

CodePudding user response：

Every project in VS (assuming .net) represents a dll/exe/.. at the end of the day... So if your solution consists of more projects, there will be a compiled item for each project after build. these 'item'-s are the assemblies.

CodePudding user response：

There are project types which do not compile to an assembly at all, e.g.

• a "SQL Server database project" creates databases, tables, stored procedures etc
• a