How to open multiple projects at time in VS2010?
Have several instances of VS (this may tax your RAM, but it is no problem if you have 2 GB or more, I often have several Visual Studios with large solutions started)
Add the projects you want to have opened to one solution (right click the solution in Solution explorer, it is there).
Visual Studio has two "project" buckets to structure your work. The top level is called the solution level. One solution can have any number of projects. So, create a solution, and add your projects to your solution. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ee817674(pandp.10).aspx. Although the article is outdated, the concepts still apply
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We have started to adopt the Visual Studio filtered solutions. We created 1 big solution (1200 projects) and about 100 solution filters.
We are experiencing inconsistent behaviour. In most of the cases Visual Studio does not save the recently opened solution filter as "recent projects and solutions". Sometimes is does though... and i cannot see when it does happen.
It might help if we understand the logic of find a way to trick VS to save it into the list. As it is very inconvient that developers have to navigate to the solution they are working in daily.
Is there any logic that determines when a (filtered) solution should be added to the Recent solutions list?
Is there a way that we can arrange the Projects order in Visual Studio's solution explorer based on project references instead of default alphabetical order.
For e.g, we see some default hierarchies of projects when we generate Code map (.dgml)
I tried searching, but could not find anything.
Purpose: I need this feature in case someone looks an already developed solution with lots of projects for the first time.
Visual studio currently does not support that from what I've seen as well. There are some hacks our there like putting your projects into folders or manually editing the order in the SLN file but both are just that... Hacks.
Organizing a Solution with folders
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My solution has more than million files.
When I try to open solution with Visual Stodio.Net 2013, it tries to load all files then crashes.
If I first hide files in windows explorer then I can open it but it takes 30 minutes to set hide or unhide.
I know there is a setting in Visual Studio but couldn't remember it.
Is there any idea?
Thanks in advance
Visual Studio simply can't scale to a project of this size. There is no hard limit on the number of files but one million is certainly too many. Try breaking your project into several projects each containing a more reasonable number of files.
Note: having a million files in a project seems quite extreme.
You may think this question is the exact duplicate of Running two projects at once in Visual Studio. Not really, it is the exact opposite.
I have a VS 2010 solution with two MVC3 projects. I've already configured the solution with a single startup project. However, each time I run it, VS spawns two servers with the two MVC applications (and one does not have direct dependency on the other).
So, how do I get rid of such behavior?
Click on the project you don't want to start up, go to the Properties tab, and change 'Always start when debugging' to False.
Is it possible to load more than one solution in the Visual Studio .NET IDE at once, so that both solutions appear in the Solution Explorer ?
Thanks
No, Visual Studio can only load one solution at a time. There's a Microsoft Connect suggestion on this very topic.
What you can do, though, (aside from an obvious option of opening several instances of Visual Studio) is to "Add Existing" project to either solution, or create an ubersolution which will include them both.
You can "add existing" picking .sln file type to current solution
or you can try to automate the process you can try playing around with this tool (might make sense if you have to do it repeatedly):
http://code.google.com/p/merge-solutions/