Opening a Visual Studio project

Introduction

The project model element enables you to quickly edit an entire project in Visual Studio from your C# Developer module, using the "Edit in Visual Studio" command.

Opening a project

To open a project in Visual Studio, simply select your project model element (1) in the explorer, and then click on the icon in the auxiliary window (2).

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Opening a Visual Studio project from Objecteering

Note 1: It is only possible to open a Visual Studio project from the C# Developer module if you have already set the "Command to launch Visual Studio" parameter in the 'External Edition" parameter set.

Note 2: In order to avoid any possible desynchronization, only open the same project once in Visual Studio.

The Visual Studio IDE window

This command launches the Visual Studio IDE (3) specified at module parameter level (using the "Command to launch Visual Studio" parameter).

The Visual Studio "Solution Explorer" presents all the sources associated with the project (5), as well as the "assemblies" (4) used by the project. The "System.Core" assembly is automatically added to the project if you are using the 2008 version of Visual Studio, while the "System" assembly is always present, whatever your version of Visual Studio.

As shown in the table below, a project can only be opened if the version of your Visual Studio IDE is greater than or equel to the version of your project file (.csproj).

Visual Studio version / Project file version	<	=	>
Effect	Error	Project file is opened	Warning. Project file migration is suggested.