vb net default working directory

[bmez]

Does vb net have a default setting for the working directory? My working directory for projects seems to end up in c:\My Documents\Visual Studio... Is this the default working directory? How is it changed?

Thanks-Bob

[Denaes]

When you're in the New Project window, where you choose the name for your project and project type, theres a combobox below where you choose your name called "Location:".

 

You can click the "Browse..." button and choose another directory for all your projects to default into.

 

Pretty sure this works with each version, but I have VB.Net Standard in front of me

[Jblake00]

Yea that is how it works. Some how I managed to get about 20 projects saved inside of c:\mydocuments\visual studio projects\Windows Aplication1........

That is what happens when you don't choose the directory to save in.

I also highly recommend giving your projects a sinceable name instead of letting VB.Net give them the default names (such as Windows App1 2 3 and so on). This can get very confusing and VB.net could save my project when I renamed the project folder in windows. I don't know about renaming the folder before firing up VB.net and then trying to open it. I haven't tryed that yet.

[Denaes]

I used to just take the default name "Windows App..." for junk projects. You know, when you just want to try something new out without getting a project involved.

 

It just got too messy and I started calling things names because WIndowsApplication 1 to 9 was taken up. Then things really got to be a mess.

 

So then I just created a Solution called Windows Experiments and kept everything in there