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Kevin Blakeley - 21 Jan 2004 00:23 GMT

Right now my visual studio.net 2003 does something really annoying. If I
have a solution open and I go to windows explorer and click to open another
project, it will close my current solution and open the project in the
current instance of VS.

A co-worker did the same thing and it creates a NEW instance of VS for him,
which is what I want and expect.

Can anyone help me with this?

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Bill - 28 Feb 2004 00:10 GMT

The default behavior for .sln and project files should be to open a new
instance of VS, but the default for other kinds of files should be to re-use
an existing VS instance. You can change this by going into Windows Explorer
and Tools->Folder Options->File Types. Find the file type for the project
file or sln file, click on advanced options button, and look at the check
box for "use DDE". That should be unchecked.

Bill

> Right now my visual studio.net 2003 does something really annoying. If I
> have a solution open and I go to windows explorer and click to open another
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> Can anyone help me with this?

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