Visual Studio Hacks

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Chapter 1, Master Projects and Solutions

#1 Manage Projects and Solutions

HACK

To enable this feature, you will need to ensure that the checkbox titled

“Save new projects when created” in Tools

➝ Options ➝ Projects and Solu-

tions

➝ General is unchecked. When you first close a new project in Visual

Studio 2005, it will ask you whether you want to save or discard the project

and the project files.

Visual Studio 2005 keeps the project and solution files as temporary files

while you are working with the unsaved project. As of this writing, the

Visual Studio 2005 beta uses the C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\

Local Settings\Application Data\Zero Impact Projects directory to hold these

files, but this is subject to change.

AutoSave and AutoRecover

Visual Studio 2005 includes another new feature that allows you to config-

ure Visual Studio to automatically save your projects and solutions and then

recover them in the event of a crash of the IDE. To configure this functional-

ity, go to Tools

➝ Options ➝ AutoRecover. This dialog is shown in

Figure 1-10.

Using this dialog, you can configure how often your information should be

saved and how long that recovery information should be stored. If Visual

Studio crashes, you will be prompted to have Visual Studio automatically

restore your project or solution when the IDE is restarted.

Figure 1-9. VB.NET project property pages