Sunday, January 23, 2011

Reloading project feature finally makes it to Visual Studio 2010

For those of you who have ever worked with Visual Studio 2010 or earlier, you must have encountered the "Reload project" dialog in Visual Studio.  This message appears whenever you have made modifications to the Visual Studio project file, either by hand editing the project file in an external editor or simply downloading a newer version of the project file from source control.



The main problem with this dialog is that you are prompted for each and every project reload within the solution.  This can be extremely annoying when you have a particularly large solution to have to answer a dozen or more prompts one after the other.  My workaround in the past has been to simply close the solution and then re-open the solution once again.

Well, with the latest release of VSCommands, that is an issue no longer!  You now have the option to Reload All projects in a single action and avoid those dozens upon dozens of dialog prompts.

The release notes for VSCommands can be found here: http://vscommands.com/releasenotes/3.6.6.0

You can download the latest (free) version of VSCommands from the Visual Studio Gallery here:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d491911d-97f3-4cf6-87b0-6a2882120acf/

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