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Visual Studio 2005 Project no Save As... ?

Visual Studio 2005 Project no Save As... ?

rgalpin	6 Nov, 2008 - 08:24 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Nov, 2008 Posts: 6	How do you save a project in its current version so that you can revert back to it if you screw it up? I would normally just do a Save As... to keep a back up to revert to. Evidently there is some other way to do it in Visual Studio 2005?
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PsychoCoder	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 6 Nov, 2008 - 08:25 AM Post #2
I Code, Therefore I am Joined: 26 Jul, 2007 Posts: 14,934 Thanked: 517 times Dream Kudos: 11575 Expert In: VB, VB.Net, C#, SQL, ASP, ASP.Net, Web Development, HTML, CSS, Win32 API, Javascript, mySQL, J#, Boo.Net, jQuery My Contributions	Since this isn't really a programming question, it's more of a question about the software, I'm moving this to the Computer Support & Operating Systems forum where it can get the proper attention
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GWatt	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 6 Nov, 2008 - 08:45 AM Post #3
// Joined: 1 Dec, 2005 Posts: 2,497 Thanked: 62 times Dream Kudos: 525 My Contributions	You could copy the project folder to another location. Kinda weird you can't do a save as.
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Jayman	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 6 Nov, 2008 - 09:06 AM Post #4
Student of Life Joined: 26 Dec, 2005 Posts: 8,570 Thanked: 237 times Dream Kudos: 500 Expert In: Everything My Contributions	You create a copy of the folder where your solution/project resides and rename it as back up or just make a copy at another location, as GWatt indicated.
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rgalpin	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 10 Nov, 2008 - 12:32 PM Post #5
New D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Nov, 2008 Posts: 6	QUOTE(Jayman @ 6 Nov, 2008 - 09:06 AM) You create a copy of the folder where your solution/project resides and rename it as back up or just make a copy at another location, as GWatt indicated. And then to load that backup, you do what? I tried creating a blank project and then adding all the files back in. Is that really the only way to do it? Seems crazy... Thanks for your help.
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KYA	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 10 Nov, 2008 - 01:49 PM Post #6
#include <nerd.h> Joined: 14 Sep, 2007 Posts: 11,500 Thanked: 508 times Dream Kudos: 2875 Expert In: C, C++, Java My Contributions	Don't you have a project file?
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rgalpin	RE: Visual Studio 2005 Project No Save As... ? 11 Nov, 2008 - 07:25 AM Post #7
New D.I.C Head Joined: 4 Nov, 2008 Posts: 6	QUOTE(KYA @ 10 Nov, 2008 - 01:49 PM) Don't you have a project file? yes, i figured out an easy way to do it. my project file is just a pointer. it points to a virtual directory i created in iis. to switch back and forth between various versions i just point the virtual directory at which ever one i want to work on. This post has been edited by rgalpin: 11 Nov, 2008 - 04:59 PM
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