Re: saving interim project versions

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Thanks for your reply, gerry. That is what I have done a few times so far
but it seems rather laborious and quite hard to find and reinstate earlier
versions of code when needed. I admit I probably I need to learn more about
the file structure of VB.Net projects and especially about Visual Studio. I
have no experience with earlier VBs (just some very distant Assembler
training) so I'm learning more or less from scratch.

Isn't there some convenient way within Visual Studio (2005 Express) itself?
Perhaps there is something obvious I have missed. I recall reading somewhere
that the idea of Solutions was to help you keep track of earlier versions of
the project, but I haven't figured out how to take advantage of that yet.
Can you or anyone point me in the right direction?

What I imagine as being a convenient backup method would be something like
this. When you are working on a class, module, etc. you can press a hot key
to quick-save a backup version of that unit (no need to think of a name). It
goes onto the top of a LIFO stack, which will hold a chosen number of
previous versions (say 3). When you add a new backup to the top, the oldest
backup crashes through the bottom of the stack into the Recycle Bin (perhaps
the term stack isn't technically correct, but I have those plates in mind!).
When you want to look at a previous version of the section you are working
on, you press another hotkey to cycle through the backups in the stack. You
can either reinstate a backup or cut and paste bits of it into the present
version. Finally, you would be able to do all that at project level too, but
you would do it less often.

Is that just a beginner's pipe dream? I'm guessing it wouldn't be too
difficult to write a program to do it, but I'm not volunteering -- not yet.
Anyway, does something like that already exist out there somewhere?

regards, Vic Joseph



"gerry" <germ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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make a copy of your project directory maybe ?


"Vic Joseph" <vic_ngreply@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi people on vsnet.general,

I'm a newbie trying to learn VB.Net on VS2005 Express. Quite often I get
myself into a bit of a tangle and I would like to go back to an earlier
version of my project when at least a few things seemed to be working.
Can
anyone recommend a good way to organize this? For example, what is the
best
way to save a backup of the present version of the project, within the
same
solution or elsewhere? What is the best practice for this?

regards, Vic Joseph







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