Oct 31, 2017 · A .sln file is merely a collection of multiple .vcproj files. As Visual Studio can automatically create one if not present, there is no need to keep it for distribution or archiving. It's the successor of a .dsw file (Visual Studio 6). Its name "Solution file" is IMHO misleading.

As mentioned in some of the answers, you can directly launch sln-files from the command line, i.e. MySolution\MySolution.sln. The fastest way to start a solution is to take advantage of the tab-completion. Note that this only works if you have only one solution-file in the folder. If you are in the solution folder: *slntabenter

Oct 6, 2010 · A solution (.sln) is a structure for organizing projects in Visual Studio. It performs a function similar to Windows Program Group (.vbg) files in Visual Basic 6.0 and project workspace (.dsw) files in Visual C++ 6.0.

Jun 26, 2014 · Visual Studio automatically generates a solution when you create a new project. Visual Studio stores the definition for a solution in two files: .sln and .suo. The solution definition file (.sln) stores the metadata that defines your solution, including: The projects that are associated with the solution.

Oct 26, 2016 · System will create the .sln file in folder C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\WebSite. System will open the current project. You can also copy the the .sln file in the same folder of the current project. It will open the project in the folder.

Jan 28, 2014 · I found a way to do that and it works fine for me (with Visual Studio 2005): - edit the .sln file with a text editor and use environment variables with the following syntax %MyEnvironmentVariable% - edit the .vcproj files and replace the path to the desired files with some variables, with the following syntax $(MyEnvironmentVariable).

Apr 1, 2009 · Everything is great, but I wanted also to get sln generation capability - in code snapshot above you're only parsing .sln files - I wanted to make similar thing except to be able to re-generate sln with slight modifications back to .sln file. Such cases could be for example porting same project for different .NET platform.

Oct 8, 2010 · The SLN files are not XML, but they do not really contain anything that would be worth editing by hand. I think the SUO files are binary and shouldn't be edited (they only contain user-specific values for the solution).

Oct 22, 2013 · Setting the file assoc of the .sln to be the "Visual Studio version selector" made no change and the solution continued to open in 2010. The devenv (name).sln /upgrade method made no change to my .sln file. Hacking the raw text of the .sln file corrupted mine and it …

Oct 31, 2012 · I once dabbled during the mfc COM days and suddenly got thrown into the world of linux. Now, I am coming back to vstudio for some modules and have exactly have this kind of question in my mind what to open wither a .csproj or a .sln file. So my understanding now is that the .sln is the appropriate file that must be open. Thanks for the question.