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Asked: 2026-05-11T17:26:33+00:00

I hope this qualifies as programming related since it involves how to structure a

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I hope this qualifies as programming related since it involves how to structure a project.

Because I’ve always used the web site model with VS.net I never had solution and project files and putting everything into source control worked great. I knew that everything I had in my web site directory was all I needed for the web site.

Now I’m using asp.net MVC and it only has a project model so now I have these solution and project files. If I work on it alone it’s fine but once other people start to add/delete files from the project our solution file gets messed up and people end up having to grab the latest solution file, see what got changed and then add back/remove their files and check in the solution file again. It’s become sort of a problem because sometimes people don’t realize the solution file was changed, they make other changes and then when they check in everything other people do an update on their files they find that their files are gone from the project (although still physically on disk).

Is this normal? Is there a way to structure a project so that we don’t need to check in solution and project files?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think it’s normal – what are you using for source control? It sounds like developers aren’t respecting changes that others a making – checking in without merging first.

    I know that early on in a project, when lots of files are being added & deleted, it can be a problem to keep up – you need to check out the project file, add your files, then check in the new file & project so other developers can also update it. You’ll probably have multiple project files in a solution – perhaps one interim solution would be to have one “holding” project for each developer, then clean them up periodically – though these types of temporary fixes do have a tendency to become permanent.

    I don’t know of a way to set up a project file that’s not in source control, though I suppose you could create a script that would generate them.

    Having been through this, the key is respect & good communication between the developers.

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