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[bshannon]

What is the best way to copy a project to work with?

I have my main project that I always use to make updates
too. I am going to implement a lot of big changes to the
project and don't want to interfere with the project I
use to make my updates with.

Basically I want to have a test project. Make my changes
to that and test it. Then apply the changes to my good
copy.

I am going to be reconfiguring my app to implement forms
authentication, log each user as they enter a page to a
database, implement global error handling. If something
comes up that a quick change needs to be made I would
have all kinds of modifications made to the project that
would give me a bad build.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Alan Ferrandiz [MCT]]

Im not sure how you want to handle this project but in my case i use versioning control software, namely Visual Sourcesafe. Getting started with it is quite easy. To start with you must install and configure VSS (takes little time to do it) and then add your project/solution to source control in VS.NET, by right clicking it in Solution Explorer. From that moment on, you can keep versions of every file in your project, and retrieve any past version if you want to

On the other hand when i want to copy a project, i create a new one and import the files i want to work with (add existing item). Maybe someone else has a better way to do this.

Hope this helps

Alan Ferrandiz Langley
geekswithblogs.com/aferrandiz