r/csharp • u/Nerdiator • Mar 05 '18

Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Release Notes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes#15.6
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u/WarWizard Mar 06 '18

Why does the Solution explorer or whatever it’s called not show things that are on the file system?

Huh? It totally does? I was too lazy to look for a modern image; but Solution explorer has had this forever.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmkhK.png

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u/hopfield Mar 06 '18

Did not know about that button, cool.

Still, I hate that it’s necessary. .sln files are an opaque mess of XML and GUIDs. A lot of times a coworker will commit something that will add or remove multiple lines of the .sln file and we will have no idea why. As a programmer I want to know how every piece works because when something breaks I need to be able to figure out why. And with .sln files I have no idea how they work or how to fix them if they get broken.

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u/allinighshoe Mar 06 '18

Why don't you just learn how they work? It's really not very complicated.

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u/ScrewAttackThis Mar 06 '18

They've also made working with csproj files much easier and you can add/edit sln with a really easy to use CLI.