Dirty your vssettings after importing from XML Notepad 2007
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With XML Notepad 2007 you can edit settings exported from Visual Studio, for example "VC++ Directories", and then import them, say on another machine. The trick is to then do something manually - adding another include-folder works experimentally. Without this dirtying trick, Visual Studio often resets everything. WITH the dirtying trick, I have experienced no resets - the first time it happened I thought maybe I had made an XML-error which got by the import process, but eventually I thought up the dirtying trick and it has not failed since I started doing that. Details can be found at www.pngaz.com, since this was unsurprisingly rejected as (my first) codeproject submission, since after all the article contains no code. However, searching codeproject on the quoted "STUDIO SETTINGS" does not find this information, so the question is, might it be cool to have a section for codeless "How To" tips like this ? I tried the top two freeware XML editors, and they failed to get the job done. So, assuming there are other folks out there who don't own a paid-for-XML-editor, this is useful information. -- modified at 20:58 Wednesday 20th June, 2007 ... -- modified at 20:09 Monday 25th June, 2007
pg--az
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With XML Notepad 2007 you can edit settings exported from Visual Studio, for example "VC++ Directories", and then import them, say on another machine. The trick is to then do something manually - adding another include-folder works experimentally. Without this dirtying trick, Visual Studio often resets everything. WITH the dirtying trick, I have experienced no resets - the first time it happened I thought maybe I had made an XML-error which got by the import process, but eventually I thought up the dirtying trick and it has not failed since I started doing that. Details can be found at www.pngaz.com, since this was unsurprisingly rejected as (my first) codeproject submission, since after all the article contains no code. However, searching codeproject on the quoted "STUDIO SETTINGS" does not find this information, so the question is, might it be cool to have a section for codeless "How To" tips like this ? I tried the top two freeware XML editors, and they failed to get the job done. So, assuming there are other folks out there who don't own a paid-for-XML-editor, this is useful information. -- modified at 20:58 Wednesday 20th June, 2007 ... -- modified at 20:09 Monday 25th June, 2007
pg--az
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You don't need a specific tool, any text editor will do (I've just created a new project, and used my favourite merge tool to merge in all the important settings from an existing sibling project)
For free, XML notepad is superior to notepad. But I didn't know about "merge tools" - searching a bit, you might mean something like "Perforce" ? Perforce is indeed free, for up to 2 users, so thanks at least for pointing me in that direction, unless your favorite is better, hmm ! So is your favourite also free, or less than $600, or "a bargain at xxxx price" ? -- modified at 11:52 Wednesday 20th June, 2007
pg--az
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For free, XML notepad is superior to notepad. But I didn't know about "merge tools" - searching a bit, you might mean something like "Perforce" ? Perforce is indeed free, for up to 2 users, so thanks at least for pointing me in that direction, unless your favorite is better, hmm ! So is your favourite also free, or less than $600, or "a bargain at xxxx price" ? -- modified at 11:52 Wednesday 20th June, 2007
pg--az
pg--az wrote:
For free, XML notepad is superior to notepad.
Almost any editor is superior to Notepad! :) But XML Notepad is pretty handy. Trouble is I often forget I have it installed!
Kevin
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pg--az wrote:
For free, XML notepad is superior to notepad.
Almost any editor is superior to Notepad! :) But XML Notepad is pretty handy. Trouble is I often forget I have it installed!
Kevin