Elements of Project Workspaces
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Project workspaces can contain the following:
| Project | A set of zero or more source files, with one or more configurations. A project also specifies the type of application to build. Your project workspace can contain any number of projects, including subprojects. |
| Configuration | The settings for a project that specify a platform on which the output file is to run, and the tool settings with which to build the output. You can add any number of configurations to a project. By default, when you create a new project, you create Debug and Release configurations. |
Within a project workspace, projects can have the following relations:
| Top-level project | A project that is not a dependency of any other project (not a subproject of any other project). A project workspace has at least one top-level project. |
| Subproject | A project that has a dependency relationship with another project. The build system determines if it needs to build the subproject before it builds the containing project. Any project can be a subproject of any other project. |