RE: Reusing the same files in multiple projects

From: Greg Conely (GregConely_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:51:02 -0700

What happens when you need to keep files in sync between several different solutions? What about if you edit the sln or prj files? Could you do this, or would the IDE out smart you? Probably the later. :-)

"Greg Conely" wrote:

> One of the things that I find the most frustrating (stupid even) is the fact that you can't reuse the same file in multiple projects. I posted this as a question, just in case there is a method of doing this, but I doubt it is easy.
>
> I like the idea of creating multiple copies of files, but what about template modules and classes? Why can't we tell the IDE to use the "master" copy and not create its own local copy? Do we really need to have a thousand copies of a module we use in almost every project. This also makes the updating of these files a pain.