When I unload projects in visual studio, where does VS save this setting?

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Kevin Yang picture Kevin Yang · Sep 5, 2012 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I checked the solution file and the project file, and can not find anything related to this setting. When people get latest version from TFS source control, they always see the 'loaded' status, which is not really what I want.

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Ed Hintz picture Ed Hintz · Sep 6, 2012

This information is stored in the solution user options file (.suo) which you can find in the same directory as the solution file. As the name implies this is user specific information which means sharing this across the team will be difficult because then everyone will need to live with the same options and store files in the exact location because the .suo file contains full paths.

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