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Instance Hunter
Instance Hunter

Reputation: 7925

Is there any way to make Eclipse's handling of projects and workspaces work like Visual Studio?

In other words, one folder, one project. Copy the folder, you've copied the whole project. One project open in the IDE at a time. Self-contained. Simple.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

Manrico Corazzi
Manrico Corazzi

Reputation: 11371

Projects are organized as decribed in Eclipse. The folder where the project is stored contains all of the significant data. However you have the considerably more powerful paradigm of workspace. A workspace is a set of preferences and projects somehow related. If you want to work with a project you copied (as in "copy the folder") you have to import it in a workspace, but that's it: it's still a single comprehensive folder.

On the other hand if you want to have one single project open in the IDE at once you have different choices:

  1. use a different workspace for every project
  2. close other projects (right click, "close all unrelated projects") and setup a filter to hide closed projects
  3. use working sets with a single project

This way you are giving up some really cool features, though, such as importing projects into other projects.

Upvotes: 2

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