Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

Today my VS2008 started to act weirdly for one of my solutions.  All
solutions are VB.

In all other solutions, when I click on a project in Solution
Explorer, the name of the project is bolded.  If I click on an open
file from a project, the file name in Solution Explorer has a light
gray background and the project name becomes bold.

In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
always bold.  Nothing I do will make any other project name bold -
clicking on the project in Solution Explorer, selecting an open file
from another project, etc.

In all cases Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> General ->
Track Active Item in Solution Explorer is set.

What could be different about this one solution?

date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:02:48 -0700   author:   Jack Jackson

Re: Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

>In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
>always bold. 

That's usually the project that is set as the Startup Project.

Dave

date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:13 +0100   author:   David Lowndes lid

Re: Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:13 +0100, David Lowndes
<DavidL@example.invalid> wrote:

>>In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
>>always bold. 
>
>That's usually the project that is set as the Startup Project.
>
>Dave

Thanks, that was it.  I was unaware of the Startup Project. Apparently
none of my solutions have ever had a Startup Project, except for this
one that somehow got one set today.

date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:41:38 -0700   author:   Jack Jackson

Re: Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

"Jack Jackson"  wrote in message 
news:9m1m6416kmqe4utpj8t9hgfr44d9oaiah0@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:13 +0100, David Lowndes
> <DavidL@example.invalid> wrote:
>
>>>In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
>>>always bold.
>>
>>That's usually the project that is set as the Startup Project.
>>
>>Dave
>
> Thanks, that was it.  I was unaware of the Startup Project. Apparently
> none of my solutions have ever had a Startup Project, except for this
> one that somehow got one set today.

Weird, I didn't know you could not have a Startup Project set ...

I'm a C# guy, not a VB guy.  How can I turn it off so that the project that 
I have selected (which appears to be the case for Dave) is always the 
startup project?  That would be very useful.

Thanks.

date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:36:55 -0400   author:   Tom

Re: Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:36:55 -0400, "Tom" 
wrote:

>
>"Jack Jackson"  wrote in message 
>news:9m1m6416kmqe4utpj8t9hgfr44d9oaiah0@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:13 +0100, David Lowndes
>> <DavidL@example.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>>In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
>>>>always bold.
>>>
>>>That's usually the project that is set as the Startup Project.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>
>> Thanks, that was it.  I was unaware of the Startup Project. Apparently
>> none of my solutions have ever had a Startup Project, except for this
>> one that somehow got one set today.
>
>Weird, I didn't know you could not have a Startup Project set ...
>
>I'm a C# guy, not a VB guy.  How can I turn it off so that the project that 
>I have selected (which appears to be the case for Dave) is always the 
>startup project?  That would be very useful.
>
>Thanks.

With VS2008 VB, if you right-click on the Solution line in Solution
Explorer and click on "Set Startup Projects...", there are three
radiobuttons:  Current Selection, Single startup project and Multiple
startup projects.

If you select Current selection, then whichever project is selected in
Solution Explorer will be the startup project.

date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:54:50 -0700   author:   Jack Jackson

Re: Selecting projects in Solution Explorer   

"Jack Jackson"  wrote in message 
news:jejp949d42fn1roujjc85amc8e2f4fvk0m@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:36:55 -0400, "Tom" 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Jack Jackson"  wrote in message
>>news:9m1m6416kmqe4utpj8t9hgfr44d9oaiah0@4ax.com...
>>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:47:13 +0100, David Lowndes
>>> <DavidL@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>In the one odd solution, everything works fine except one project is
>>>>>always bold.
>>>>
>>>>That's usually the project that is set as the Startup Project.
>>>>
>>>>Dave
>>>
>>> Thanks, that was it.  I was unaware of the Startup Project. Apparently
>>> none of my solutions have ever had a Startup Project, except for this
>>> one that somehow got one set today.
>>
>>Weird, I didn't know you could not have a Startup Project set ...
>>
>>I'm a C# guy, not a VB guy.  How can I turn it off so that the project 
>>that
>>I have selected (which appears to be the case for Dave) is always the
>>startup project?  That would be very useful.
>>
>>Thanks.
>
> With VS2008 VB, if you right-click on the Solution line in Solution
> Explorer and click on "Set Startup Projects...", there are three
> radiobuttons:  Current Selection, Single startup project and Multiple
> startup projects.
>
> If you select Current selection, then whichever project is selected in
> Solution Explorer will be the startup project.

Cool.  Thanks for the tip.

date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:00:04 -0400   author:   Tom