Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157

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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:04:46 GMT

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re: Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157

user — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:34:32 GMT

So, why do I need this? Is there any performance benefit, like faster solution loading?

re: Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157

LucasC — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:29:05 GMT

Thank you - you just solved my issue of organising umpteen-project solutions!

And, hoping not to steal your thunder for another tip: just when I thought to post a suggestion to have a quick way of unloading all projects in such a solution folder, I see it is already there (right click the solution folder and see "Unload Projects in Solution Folder" :) ). The designers of VS were ahead of me again...

In case you wonder why I would like to unload a group of projects: I noticed that having any Compact Framework projects open slows down VS quite a bit (especially the build phase). This way I can work on the non-CF projects in the same solution as CF projects without incurring the slowdown unless actually doing work on the CF projects.

re: Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157

Darshit Dave — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:38:17 GMT

Hi Sara,

Is this available only in Visual Studio 2008? Or is it available in Visual Studio 2005 too?

Thanks,

Darshit Dave

re: Did you know... You can use Solution Folders to hide projects? - #157

Mike — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:44:49 GMT

I've really come to like the solution folders thanks to your tip.

Is there any way to map solution folders to real folders on disk or in version control?

The fact that VS creates a flat physical directory structure even when projects are in solution folders is starting to become cumbersome.

Thanks,

Mike