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5.7.5. Project Concept

To start working with Sniff a developer has to define a project. I.e., the source files it contains and eventually a set of subprojects which can be shared among projects. A subproject is a complete project on its own.

A typical project structure for a program building on a class library is to have a root project containing the project specific source files an to load the library project as subproject. Library projects are frequently trees of projects themselves.

Whenever a project is opened or when a file or a subproject is loaded into the current project its source code is analyzed and the information about the symbols defined therein is stored in Sniff's symbol table.