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Why?

I expect only the project to open.

The only way that I could accomplish what I wanted to do was to create a new project test.csproj, add design.csproj, save the solution, and then remove test.csproj.

+1  A: 

Projects are linked to solutions; you cannot open a project without its parent solution.

Otherwise, things like project references wouldn't work.

SLaks
I don't see this. I expected the solution file to contain a list of projects that are contained within the solution and that the project could be contained within one or more solutions. When I opened up the sln file, I thought I saw a list of projects. When I opened up the csproj file, I didn't see any reference to the solution. I'm not even sure how the csproj file pointed to the original sln file. What if the project was contained within multiple solutions? It doesn't make sense to me.
Velika