If I open a solution, unload a project then reopen the solution visual studio remembers not to not load the project again.
How can I do this outside of visual studio? Which file is this setting stored in?
Visual Studio's annoying conversion wizard won't let me open the solution without converting all the projects, I have already converted the ones I want to work with and want to set the other ones to be unloaded so I am not prompted to convert them.
[edit] As an alternative as the SUO file contains this information which I cannot edit, is there a way to tell visual studio to open a solution but to not load any of the projects? This would be quite useful to know anyway, to quickly open a large solution with many projects.
Its in the Solution User Options file (.suo) which is binary. So you likely won't find an easy way to set it there.
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My teacher is complaining that he can't read the VS2012 format on his VS2010 environment. I looked around in settings and so on but couldn't find anything. How can I give the project in an VS2010 readable format to my teacher?
Modifying sln manually
Backup your project folder (copy/paste to another location, like a folder called "backups")
Open sln file on wordpad
Change the "header" of opened sln to below (the first lines that matches mentioned lines below, except by version number/name):
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
I'll see if there is a way to do it in project options...
If the VS2010 installation has SP1 installed, then it should be able to read the VS2012 solution file.
Assuming this is not a terribly complex project (I'm making that assumption since there is a teacher involved), the easiest approach may be just to re-create the project in Visual Studio 2010.
Fire up VS2010, add your files, make any necessary changes to settings, and save.
You will need VS2010 no matter what approach you take. Even if you convert the project file by other means, it would be very wise to test it before handing it in again. The Express edition is free.
Another easy way to do it is to right click on the source code, open it with a program such as notepad, then save that on to a USB stick. When you go to class, copy and paste this into Visual Studio 2010 and viola.
My teacher is complaining that he can't read the VS2012 format on his VS2010 environment. I looked around in settings and so on but couldn't find anything. How can I give the project in an VS2010 readable format to my teacher?
Modifying sln manually
Backup your project folder (copy/paste to another location, like a folder called "backups")
Open sln file on wordpad
Change the "header" of opened sln to below (the first lines that matches mentioned lines below, except by version number/name):
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual Studio 2010
I'll see if there is a way to do it in project options...
If the VS2010 installation has SP1 installed, then it should be able to read the VS2012 solution file.
Assuming this is not a terribly complex project (I'm making that assumption since there is a teacher involved), the easiest approach may be just to re-create the project in Visual Studio 2010.
Fire up VS2010, add your files, make any necessary changes to settings, and save.
You will need VS2010 no matter what approach you take. Even if you convert the project file by other means, it would be very wise to test it before handing it in again. The Express edition is free.
Another easy way to do it is to right click on the source code, open it with a program such as notepad, then save that on to a USB stick. When you go to class, copy and paste this into Visual Studio 2010 and viola.
I'm creating the software for a course. What with exercise start points and worked solutions and both C# and VB I have about 100 VS2010 solutions.
During development I reopen these as neccessary and they get a lot of tweaking. When I'm done I want to leave the solutions with NO documents open. That way when the student opens the solution it's a very clean view, not littered with the files I was last looking at.
Up to VS2008 this was was easy. I simply deleted all the *.suo files - that seems to be where VS stores the window layout. When a solution was opened VS happily created a new SUO file. This approach was suggested in Close all files in visual studio on exit
With VS2010 this causes an annoying dialog...
Security warning for You should only open projects from a trustworthy source
This is completely reproducible.
Open one of the solutions, for which there is no SUO file
VS gives a trust warning. User accepts it. SUO file is created.
Subsequent opening of the SLN don’t report trust problems.
Delete the SUO file.
Reopen the SLN and the trust errors reoccurs.
How can I achieve my ambition of having VS open up with no document windows open, and no security dialog? I really want it to be automated from OUTSIDE VS. Opening all of 100 solutions and manually closing the windows is NOT what I'm looking for.
It's pretty easy to create a macro that will close all windows, but I cannot see a way of starting VS from the command line and getting it to run a macro on startup.
This sounds like you downloaded the project file from an untrusted source. Scott Hanselman wrote a blog post about it. The short story is that if you go to the properties page for the project file (windows explorer -> right click project file -> properties), you can unblock the file with the button at the bottom:
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/
Is there a way to tell Visual Studio 2005 to just ignore source control binding when opening a solution? I sometimes need to load a solution for which I don't have access to the source control server, but Visual Studio insists on trying to connect anyway, meaning I have to click "temporarily work offline in disconnected mode" for every project in the solution (of which there are about 20) as it loads. For some reason, it also tries to check each project out immediately after I've told it to work offline, so I have to click past that dialog box too.
As I will never need to edit anything in this solution, is there any way I can open it and have Visual Studio just ignore the fact it has source control bindings in it?
Edit: Ideally, I'd like a way to do this without having to change the project/solution files. They change fairly frequently, so I'd have to redo any changes every time there was a new version (otherwise I'd just unbind them once and it wouldn't be a problem).
Thanks for the replies so far.
The source control bindings are stored in Visual Studio solution file (.sln). For TFS for example, it contains a global section for TFS information and the solution projects added to TFS. You can edit the solution file to remove these bindings manually. I would suggest making a copy of the solution file first. However, I would recommend removing bindins via Visual Studio. Open your solution and go through the offline scenario. Then go to File/Source Control/Change Source Control (VS 2008) to bring up the UI that shows you the source control bindings in your solution. There you can manage the bindings including unbinding them. Once unbound, the next time you open the solution, VS should not have a need to access the source control.
I've been looking for a way to disable Integration between SourceSafe 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. We are forced to use SourceSafe being in a corporate environment and all. SourceSafe is fine on its own if you treat it like a baby. As soon as you try to do anything approaching useful it starts to break. God forbid you try to use the integration with Visual Studio. Being that I didn't want the "Bindings removed" so that it doesn't confuse other devs on the team I needed to be able to tell Studio to ignore the solution and project bindings and continue on it's merry way.
I followed the registry hack suggested in the following post
Removing SourceSafe Integration from Visual Studio 6
Studio did what I wanted...sort of. It removed the SourceSafe integration. However when I opened up a source controlled solution it asked me if I wanted to remove the bindings.
"the projects will be treated as not under source control"
No I don't want you to remove the bindings from the files, I want you to IGNORE them. This dialog pops up every time you open the solution/project file and there is no way around it.
My solution at the moment seems to have worked...for now.
File->Source Control->Change Source Control...->Disconnect
I hope this helps anyone else in the position of having to use SourceSafe but can't remove the bindings from the files themselves. WHY, Microsoft, WHY would you put the bindings in the files themselves?
/rant