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Development on Multiple Computers

I have a situation where I need to develop on two different computers. My
solution is to simply save the project on a USB flash drive. Everything
seems to work, except that the files that were opened in Visual Studio are
not restored if I switch computers. If I open the solution on the same
computer then Visual Studio will automatically open all of the files that
were opened when closed the solution, but this does not happen when I switch
computers.

Is there any way to have Visual Studio restore the previously opened files?
For example, does Visual Studio save this information to a file that I could
copy to my flash drive?

Thanks for any help.
Lance

Mar 18 '08 #1
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Implement a "one person" source control system.

And pull from the source control.....from either machine.

...

Its less prone to error...then the copy and paste and usb-transport model.

VSS (which is the worst in the bunch actually)...

Check this blog:

http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/arc...09/24/496.aspx

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>I have a situation where I need to develop on two different computers. My
solution is to simply save the project on a USB flash drive. Everything
seems to work, except that the files that were opened in Visual Studio are
not restored if I switch computers. If I open the solution on the same
computer then Visual Studio will automatically open all of the files that
were opened when closed the solution, but this does not happen when I
switch
computers.

Is there any way to have Visual Studio restore the previously opened
files?
For example, does Visual Studio save this information to a file that I
could
copy to my flash drive?

Thanks for any help.
Lance

Mar 18 '08 #2
Hi Steven,

Thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear that you were able to reproduce my
results and I am grateful that you are continuing to look into this issue. I
look forward to hearing about what you discover.

Lance

Mar 27 '08 #3
Hi Lance,

After some further research and working with some other VS engineers, it
seems those settings are stored in user's local temp cache and the temp
file location is randomly generated which is not definite determinable. I'm
afraid it would be hard to make it move between multiple machines like
other project files.

Anyway, I would suggest you submit this as a feature request on our
feedback site so that the dev team can also hear more on this:

http://connect.microsoft.com/feedbac...spx?SiteID=210

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Hi Steven,

Thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear that you were able to reproduce
my
>results and I am grateful that you are continuing to look into this issue.
I
>look forward to hearing about what you discover.

Lance

Apr 9 '08 #4
Hi Steven,

Thank you so much for looking finding an answer to my question. I've looked
into this issue a bit more and I think it might be possible to use a macro to
implement the desired behavior. I will try this idea and start a new thread
if I run into issues.

Thanks again!
Lance

Jun 27 '08 #5

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