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Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default

As we found out today, the default settings for Visual Studio 2005 Professional are to not show the solution by default. This means that as soon as you add a project to a blank solution, the solution disappears and you are unable to add another project.

This is easy to fix though:

Make sure that you have the option to "Always show solution" set in your IDE. To do this, goto tools->options->Projects and Solution and check the "Always show solution" option.

I don't understand though, that this is a default setting... wo could possibly live in the Professional environment with only one project per solution?? For an express edition, I could imagine this to be useful.. but otherwise, No!

Posted 11-11-2005 15:14 by Raimondb
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Anonymous wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 06-02-2006 8:42
Thanks, I used VS 2005 for the first time today and this was the first problem I had
Anonymous wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 28-02-2006 15:25
awesome. i knew i wasn't loosing my mind. somehow i had five projects in one solution, rebooted, and then i could only open one at a time when i opened the solution again. thanks!!
Anonymous wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 18-05-2006 19:19
That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Why wouldn't you default it to always show... typical of Microsoft to make a dumb decision like that.
Anonymous wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 25-06-2006 3:00
I'm glad I found this page because I was losing it too. :)
Anonymous wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 11-07-2006 19:46
Man, I was about to re-install Visual Studio... I would think that would be checked by default.
Gaurav wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 25-10-2006 9:11

Gr8. I was surprized, how to add more projects in my web solution. This was really helpful in viewing the solution in the solution explorer.

Ray wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 08-12-2006 21:42

I couldn't find the "Project and Solution" section for the longest time.  Then, I saw the little checkbox, tucked away at the bottom, that says "Show all settings".  So by default, you can't even see the "Project and Solution" settings.

Jim wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 25-01-2007 16:25

This drove me insane for about half an hour. Thank you so much!

Shekhar- INIQUUS- PUNE wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 13-02-2007 12:05

hi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was also facing the same problem...

this shud not be the deafault setting.... its really dumb thing I have ever seen

...

thanx a lot for sharing information,....

DirtyWhiteBoy wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 17-04-2007 15:42

Thank you!!  I thought I was going crazy.

s.suresh wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 17-05-2007 0:06

i developed a database using ASP.NET and SQL. whenever i open my default file it takes different local host number. how to stop this?

Vikram wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 24-05-2007 23:03

Thanks, this helped me to fix my problem.

Ajay wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 12-06-2007 10:59

Thanks, great to find your post. I was wondering how much time it will take to fix this issue , using google, 2 minutes only.

Cheers

A

Max wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 13-08-2007 21:24

Thanks. Exelent tip!

pickedaname wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 28-08-2007 16:08

At least you can open your solution. After installing VS2005 SP1 on Vista 32,

I can't open the solution files! I've deleted the sou to no avail.

I haven't tried rebooting but this is after I booted up in the morning. How buggy.

kenboo wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 16-11-2007 2:16

great....I had a DLL project , and had a separate project for debugging.  Now they are in one solution.  Thanks a lot.

Petr wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 25-11-2007 3:22

Thank you. I was playing with it and it drived me crazy. Why Microsot did anything like that. STUPID!!!

Thank you so much!

Harsa wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 29-11-2007 13:38

Out of the box thinking if this was not a default setting. Did someone say productivity??

Nahuel wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 22-01-2008 20:42

Thanks by the info, simple but useful.

Vlad wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 04-02-2008 20:50

Thank you!

One of the stupidest "features" I've ever seen.

Why would one ever want to NOT show the solution, and so hide the other projects??

I want 40 mins of my life back.

Katherine wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 08-02-2008 22:59

Thanks for posting this.  I was just trying hook up multiple projects in a solution like I had done in VS 2003.  I would say that it is pretty bone headed of Microsoft to hide this option.  I'm glad I used solutions in VS 2003, otherwise I may have thought that one project was the best we could hope for.

geekEleet wrote Where's my solution in Visual Studio ?
on 06-03-2008 4:33

Where's my solution in Visual Studio ?

Guru Syntel wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 17-06-2008 11:38

thanks buddy...this one made me go crazy....thanks for the info

James Collett wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 17-06-2008 17:21

Hero!

Agree with the sentiments about the default setting being to not show the solution structure. As Bill Gates might say, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard."

Ted wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 21-07-2008 18:51

Thanks! This tip is still useful for VS2008 too!

Jakub wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 24-07-2008 17:34

Thanks for a quick tip.

mikeg3 wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 25-07-2008 16:01

Thank Raimond. Just discovered your explaination. I agree with others who've suggested this is one of the dumbest changes every in a Microsoft product. You have to wonder what moron in Redmond approved hiding the solution as the default?

Wouter wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 08-08-2008 10:57

Thanks Raimond, fixed the problem in no time with this tip.

- Wouter from Unive

Rob wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 24-08-2008 12:10

Grr. I just had the same problem.. knew there had to be a setting somewhere.. was about to re-install thinking surely it wouldnt be set like that by default.

Ranish.P wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 02-09-2008 9:35

Thanks

Deepu Nair wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 02-10-2008 21:15

Great!!! It works....

Twinkle wrote re: Losing my solution : Visual Studio 2005 Professional does not show the solution by default
on 30-04-2009 8:18

Thanks, it was my first problem!

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