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SoftwareGeek
SoftwareGeek

Reputation: 15782

Visual Studio - purpose of 'Refresh' button in solution explorer

what's the purpose of the 'Refresh' command on the solution explorer window? (When we select a project, the button is enabled)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1586

Answers (3)

swn1
swn1

Reputation: 39

If you have version control integration, the tree view is decorated with source control status annotations. Refresh updates these when they get out of sync.

Upvotes: 1

turkeyburger
turkeyburger

Reputation: 309

This may be an overly simple response, but I use the refresh button quite often to populate the Solution Explorer with files that have been created outside of VS.

For example, I use a separate IDE to do my Actionscript work where lots of files get added which VS is not aware of until I refresh the solution explorer window. After they appear, I can now commit them to SourceSafe.

Upvotes: 1

Daniel A. White
Daniel A. White

Reputation: 191037

Its really helpful when you have Show All Files is turned on in a Web application project (this might work for other project types). With the Refresh, you can see files added on the file system level and right-click them to include them in your project.

Upvotes: 1

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