C#•4y ago

How to edit a sln file in visual studio 2022

can't believe that i have to ask this question.... guess it comes to show another example of microsoft f***king up... but how do i simply open a sln file to edit it within visual studio 2022? i tried double clicking / triple clicking / rapid fire clicking.... no dice..... can't believe that something that used to be so easy before has now become a mystery.... tried googling but you know,,,, it get's confused with opening a sln file with visual studio.... i'm talking about EDITING IT in actual TEXT!

thanks... to anyone who has the patience to answer this stupid and frustrating question....

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 6:50 PM

beign angry won't help

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 6:51 PM

you seems to have reached the point where you realized that yes, SLN are not easily editable manually inside VS itself

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 6:55 PM

(you cant) open vscode for that if you don't want to make yourself angry over a file edit

Angius•10/4/22, 7:08 PM

Open it with Notepad++ or something

TTeBeCo beign angry won't help

230V•10/4/22, 7:31 PM

That, and instead you could spend a few seconds to google

visual studio edit sln

visual studio edit sln

230V•10/4/22, 7:32 PM

Unload/close the solution, edit it (I think VS won't let you edit it, so use something external), load/open it

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 7:52 PM

if you edit and save + alt tab back it will prompt for the reload

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 7:52 PM

which if you say "no, don't reload", then your change won't be used at all, because click yes

Ddiakanos can you edit it with another editor? That's what I do when I get frustrated in V...

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 7:56 PM

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 7:56 PM

yeah the suggestion for above are all pointing to the same answer => use anyother editor ... because it's just a file, and it works

Angius•10/4/22, 7:57 PM

(I wish

.sln

.sln

files were at least somewhat human-readable... for how much MS loves XML, the weird format of

.sln

.sln

s really is an outlier)

AAngius (I wish `.sln` files were at least somewhat human-readable... for how much MS lo...

mtreit•10/4/22, 7:59 PM

I like to think it was written by an intern in the mid 1990s and nobody ever wanted to attempt to touch it to make it more sane.

mtreit•10/4/22, 8:00 PM

I would never hand-edit a sln file. I just generate them on the fly using SlnGen most of the time.

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 8:02 PM

was was the name of the source control again that was hard coded inside ?

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 8:02 PM

before VSTS/TFS even existed

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 8:03 PM

probably before source safe

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 8:03 PM

that gives an idea about how old that is

mtreit•10/4/22, 8:05 PM

I'm not familiar with that. WAY back Microsoft used a source control system called Source Link Manager (SLM), pronounced "SLIME", that was extremely rudimentary and did all sorts of horrible things (like one developer holding a lock on a file would prevent anyone else from being able to work...)

That was used in Windows. I don't know know what DevDiv used way back in the day.

mtreit•10/4/22, 8:10 PM

I only attempted to use SLM once. I somehow managed to corrupt the state for everyone (it was all centrally stored on a file share, behind the scenes) and it had to be restored from backup. I was too terrified to ever attempt to use it again.

TTeBeCo beign angry won't help

KunikosOP•10/4/22, 10:10 PM

i'm not angry!! i'm just passionate xD!!

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:11 PM

that might drive people away from helping

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:11 PM

not the passion

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:11 PM

more like the rant / insult

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:11 PM

guess it comes to show another example of microsoft f***king up... but how do i simply open a sln file to edit it within visual studio 2022

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:12 PM

SLN if very very sad and frustating though

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:12 PM

I don't think anyone like SLN

KunikosOP•10/4/22, 10:15 PM

it comes with the passion xD. they have been messing up a lot. in almost every industry. i'm coming more from Rider but my team doesn't use rider cuz of the licenses. we are suppose to get it soon, but until then i have to deal with this crappy IDE which feels like it's been maintained by a bunch of crackheads. probably because the HQ is in seattle xD.

mtreit•10/4/22, 10:16 PM

Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "private", "..\..\..\..\..\..\private", "{28AD4863-8920-4902-A8F6-6B259C2A3301}"
EndProject
Global
    GlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution
        {570FE209-7210-4BCC-B6C3-7C855EFA02C4} = {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8}
        {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8} = {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204}
        {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204} = {44B8A80C-03FE-404A-8B32-25337B025A17}
        {50731752-9590-4F23-A822-D84DDA9A349F} = {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F}
        {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3}
        {02E61C33-754E-4D12-9D24-DA6B897DB5D6} = {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507}
        {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3}
        {04370CEE-1F0E-4383-AA51-3C67282B51A2} = {959F8E04-04DC-46A9-9447-C81F5129EEA3}
<continues for hundreds of lines>

Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "private", "..\..\..\..\..\..\private", "{28AD4863-8920-4902-A8F6-6B259C2A3301}"
EndProject
Global
    GlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution
        {570FE209-7210-4BCC-B6C3-7C855EFA02C4} = {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8}
        {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8} = {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204}
        {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204} = {44B8A80C-03FE-404A-8B32-25337B025A17}
        {50731752-9590-4F23-A822-D84DDA9A349F} = {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F}
        {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3}
        {02E61C33-754E-4D12-9D24-DA6B897DB5D6} = {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507}
        {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3}
        {04370CEE-1F0E-4383-AA51-3C67282B51A2} = {959F8E04-04DC-46A9-9447-C81F5129EEA3}
<continues for hundreds of lines>

What's not to love?

KunikosOP•10/4/22, 10:16 PM

lol

Mmtreit ``` Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "private", "..\..\..\..\...

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:16 PM

all the

in GUID

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:17 PM

mtreit•10/4/22, 10:17 PM

That's normal

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:17 PM

time to sleep on that bad joke

TeBeCo•10/4/22, 10:17 PM

it's not what I would call normal but I know that ... sadly it's a thing

mtreit•10/4/22, 10:17 PM

You probably know it's a version

MODiX•10/4/22, 10:18 PM

mtreit#6470

REPL Result: Success

Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());
Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());
Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());

Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());
Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());
Console.WriteLine(Guid.NewGuid());

Console Output

e64d4bbd-28a9-4871-9121-5226c49b0598
5bc47861-6142-4dbf-97e7-05128aa719cd
8ae03200-2721-4832-a3ce-c5f0715addcf

e64d4bbd-28a9-4871-9121-5226c49b0598
5bc47861-6142-4dbf-97e7-05128aa719cd
8ae03200-2721-4832-a3ce-c5f0715addcf

Compile: 506.589ms | Execution: 19.480ms | React with ❌ to remove this embed.

TTeBeCo all the `4` in GUID

333fred•10/4/22, 11:06 PM

That part of a UUID is not random. It's the version specifier

333fred•10/4/22, 11:06 PM

.NET GUIDs are v4 UUIDs

333fred•10/4/22, 11:08 PM

But seriously, I would not recommend manually editing a SLN file at all.

333fred•10/4/22, 11:08 PM

Either use

dotnet sln

dotnet sln

or VS

3333fred Either use `dotnet sln` or VS

mtreit•10/5/22, 12:29 AM

New sln file format when

Mmtreit New sln file format when

TeBeCo•10/5/22, 5:57 AM

it was announced for 2036 IIRC

TTeBeCo it was announced for 2036 IIRC

mtreit•10/5/22, 5:58 AM

Oh, ok, cool, no problem

TeBeCo•10/5/22, 5:58 AM

ahahaha

TeBeCo•10/5/22, 5:58 AM

that said, I need to reply to Tim H. about Compound

mtreit•10/5/22, 5:59 AM

Compound?

Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = "private", "..\..\..\..\..\..\private", "{28AD4863-8920-4902-A8F6-6B259C2A3301}" EndProject Global GlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution {570FE209-7210-4BCC-B6C3-7C855EFA02C4} = {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8} {C4A4F31B-2B96-4CB0-AE64-D285903E17D8} = {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204} {DB7A0EC3-73DC-416C-BE61-2D612DDA5204} = {44B8A80C-03FE-404A-8B32-25337B025A17} {50731752-9590-4F23-A822-D84DDA9A349F} = {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F} {84943E34-F567-4842-BD14-EE15D74C684F} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3} {02E61C33-754E-4D12-9D24-DA6B897DB5D6} = {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507} {82AA7845-CA3F-4B48-802C-746333C8E507} = {B3E0E3D5-8A06-4698-94A6-6A41A87B90B3} {04370CEE-1F0E-4383-AA51-3C67282B51A2} = {959F8E04-04DC-46A9-9447-C81F5129EEA3} <continues for hundreds of lines>

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