04.11 Understanding the File Open Location
MENU | Tools | Options | Environment | Documents |
VERSIONS | 2005, 2008, 2010 |
CODE | vstipEnv0035 |
Have you ever noticed that when you go to open a file in Visual Studio (Ctrl+O) it automatically uses the directory of the current active document?
This is controlled by the Open File Using Directory Of Currently Active Document option. You can find this at Tools | Options | Environment | Documents.
You can turn this feature off by clearing its check box, and Visual Studio then uses the DefaultFileOpenLocation from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version> ...
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