how to save copy of project from inside visual studio

[Richard Bell]

I'm new to visual studio. Is there an easy way to 'snap shot' a copy
of a project from inside visual studio?

Thanks

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Richard,

If there is an easy way, I'm going to be pretty angry! I've written a
routine that saves the sub (and all subsequent subs) of a solution directory
and all files into another drivespec, after first appending the date to the
new sub - so mysys is saved as c:\mysys22904 - and the subs beneath are
saved under the same name. It works fine - a recursive subdirectory copying
routine.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

 

[Richard Bell]

Hard to imagine that there is not an easy way but OK. If I just copy
the directory holding the project to another directory
....\snapshot040301 what issues do I run into if I later try to revisit
the project now stored in ...\snapshot040301?

Thanks.

Richard

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

If there is an easy way, I'm going to be pretty angry! I've written a
routine that saves the sub (and all subsequent subs) of a solution directory
and all files into another drivespec, after first appending the date to the
new sub - so mysys is saved as c:\mysys22904 - and the subs beneath are
saved under the same name. It works fine - a recursive subdirectory copying
routine.

Would be a nice add-in... ;-).

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Richard,

None, really. However, you might get confused as to which version you are
looking at, so be careful with it.

As I said, I rename to base subdirectory to <subdirectoryname+date> - eg,
mysys030104. The solution name is still the same - and since all kinds of
things point to it, it really has to be the same. I tend only to reopen a
saved system if I need to recover something that I might have changed but
shouldn't have, etc. The I copy the code I need, reload the original, and
paste as necessary.

Bernie