Michael Banzon

Once again Visual Studio has proven troubleish!

I’ve spent the last hour trying to find out why our project at work wouldn’t compile (complaining about missing files) on other machines but would on mine! I went through every file in the repository and confirmed that it was up to date. I confirmed that the same files where present and up-to-date on the other machines… !!!

I turned out that I had been moving files around. I had made a sub-namespace to one of our project and moved some files into it. This can be done with no worries – except I didn’t close VS2005 before I did a commit. BIG mistake!! Apparently the project-file only gets updated with the new file locations when I close VS2005 and not when I hit the save-button…

Another hour spent learning the hard truth about Visual Studio.