How to set the startup program for debugging a project for the entire team
You surely have set the startup application for a project countless times:
But that setting goes your user options file, the rest of the team doesn’t get to reuse the setting. And what if you repave your machine or start working on a new virtual machine and just got the sources from source control? You have to re-set this value again and again.
Turns out that this setting goes to a file named after your project file plus the “.user” extension. This file is just a fragment of an MSBuild file, and would look something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU'">
<StartAction>Program</StartAction>
<StartProgram>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe</StartProgram>
<StartArguments>/rootSuffix Exp</StartArguments>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
And because this just plain MSBuild properties, you can copy the entire PropertyGroup to your main project file, delete this .user, and check-in your change. From now on, everyone on the team will have this setting enabled, and you will have it too if you get a clean environment eventually :)
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