Jared Beach
Reputation: 3163
Editing open Visual Studio files externally: Bad?
I recently experienced some problems with Visual Studio and wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I've just started editing documents with another text editor while having the same documents open in Visual Studio.
Anyone know if this causes problems?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 3513
Answers (1)
nvoigt
Reputation: 77364
It should not. Once you save in the other editor, VS will prompt you if you want to reload the document. You should not have unsaved changes though. The setting to control this behavior can be found in the options (Tools => Options) of Visual Studio.
This screenshot is for VS 2012:
Upvotes: 3
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