visual studio not remembering open documents & startup project

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Berryl picture Berryl · Jul 16, 2011 · Viewed 47.4k times · Source

For the past week, something has changed about my VS solution, and I havent found a setting to fix it yet.

When I close the solution and restart:

  1. the start-up project reverts to a different one than was selected when I last closed
  2. my project heirarchy is not what it was when it closed - every project is expanded
  3. the documents that were open when closed are all closed

In each case I want the solution to look just like it did when I closed it last.

How do I make that happen?

Cheers,
Berryl

Answer

Dan F picture Dan F · Jul 16, 2011

I believe this information all lives in your .suo file and/or .user file. If they've become corrupt, VS will struggle, so it'll revert to the default.

Maybe try exiting VS, deleting the .suo and/or .user files, start VS and set it up how you want, restart it again and see if it remembered the settings.

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