Solution explorer

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The solution explorer lets you manage one or more projects. The solution explorer has a toolbar that lets you refresh the content of a project in case you add or remove files outside the IDE. Also you can select to show all the files in the project directory or just the files associated to the project.

Within the solution explorer you can also add, rename and delete files on a project just like the windows file explorer. Also you can access the project references that are used for intellisense.

Source code control

The solution explorer also provides access to the source code control features. Within it you can checkout and checkin files as well as checking the log of any file. Projects can be associated with a source code control repository and can work on connected or disconnected mode. There are many source code control systems that support Visual Studio. VS.Php support to source code control comes from within Visual Studio.