The way that we’re told to use Visual Studio is that we create a solution file and add into it one or more project files. Each project file then gets filled with different development artefacts. When you build inside of Visual Studio each project represents a compiled distributable file (exe, dll, etc). Many people carry this practice over into their build scripts. You might be one of them. I’m here to tell you why you’re wrong to be doing this. Let’s say you’re starting a project. You open Visual Studio, select File | New Project and get things rolling. ...