Question

For some reason, Visual Studio 2008 keeps adding three folders to my solution folder. I always have to delete them so I don’t accidentally add them to SVN. How do I prevent these from being created? This happens about once every couple weeks, but I haven’t figured out when it happens. We’re probably going to convert all of our projects to Visual Studio 2010 later this year, but in the mean time, I’d like to figure this out.

If anyone knows how to write a Windows folder (or file) creation listener, I’ll be able to track this down faster. I’m imagining a Windows Service that displays a popup when a folder gets created somewhere in the Windows file system, and it’s constantly listening. I’ve had other situations where folders and files get created in Windows (in different project types in Visual Studio 2008 or Windows for that matter), so that might be a cool resource to have in the arsenal.

Answer 1

That directory is probably set as your VS Projects location. If you open Tools>Options and then click Projects and Solutions, it should show you the folder paths. VS will recreate these paths if you delete them.

After installing VS, they are usually set to something like:

C:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2010