Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

Did you know??? You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328 : EasyCoded

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:18:15 GMT

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re: Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

Rory Primrose — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:50:00 GMT

Hi Sara,

I think you can still revert this setting for older solutions. If you right-click on the solution and select 'Set StartUp Projects...', you can specify 'Current Selection'. This should produce the same result.

Old feature...

FP — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:47:09 GMT

This is a per-solution, per-user setting (stored in the SUO file). As Rory Primrose stated, you can change this on any solution at any time. What the 'Build Run' option does is that it merely defaults the Startup Project option to 'Current Selection'. If you don't set this option, then the startup project for the solution is set to 'Single Startup Project' which is normally the first project added to the solution.

Now, having said all of that... since this is stored in the SUO... you can automatically default ALL your solutions to 'Current Selection' by deleting the SUO files. Note that this also works when you work in a team with version control where you won't get your teammates SUO files! (Don't blame for losing other settings if you blindly go deleting SUO files... HE HE HE)...

re: Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

Mark Allan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:50:40 GMT

Nope, that's definitely ironic. You can rest easy in the knowledge that you're not Alanis Morissette.

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re: Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

Dave Violette — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:30:35 GMT

Wow! Good stuff!

I use VWD 2008 Express, but we can do the same thing there. Right-click on the project name in the Solution Explorer then select Set as Startup Project.

re: Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

Simon S — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:38:29 GMT

Good find! We recently upgraded our source control to TFS and the single click thing started happening - unsetting 'Current Selection' cured it. I have Alt-P bound to set as startup proj (single click is too easy to do!)

re: Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328

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