VS Arduino - Relocate solution folder, then intelisense problem.

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Duggle Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Jul 5^th, 2021	Relocate solution folder, then intelisense problem. Jul 5^th, 2021 at 10:25am	Print Post
	I've made a copy of the solution folder in order to reorganise my source files/folders and in the new location the Output/show output from:Solution window gives the message: Code error : Designtime build failed for project 'C:\WorkingCopies\test\myprog\myprog.vcxproj' configuration 'Debug\|Win32'. IntelliSense might be unavailable. Set environment variable TraceDesignTime = true and restart Visual Studio to investigate. (Note that TraceDesignTime is an all caps env variable but we can't type that on this forum because that would be shouting ) The message is printed 10 times. This happens wherever I try to move the solution folder to... Thanks


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12204 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Relocate solution folder, then intelisense problem. Reply #1 - Jul 5^th, 2021 at 9:37pm	Print Post
	The ".sln" and ".vcxproj" files (all config files) are simple text files you can edit them if required. Normally we would expect Microsoft to have stored relative paths but I guess that depends on where files are located. You can make manual changes to the files with text editor if need be. Were the .sln and .vcxproj on different drives to each other? That is a VS help message, does Visual Micro still build the project?
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Duggle Junior Member Offline Posts: 12 Joined: Jul 5^th, 2021	Re: Relocate solution folder, then intelisense problem. Reply #2 - Jul 6^th, 2021 at 5:14am	Print Post
	By looking at the .sln and .vcxproj files I saw that a couple of libraries I was sure had been cloned to the project subfolder were in fact at the path ..\..\..\..\..\Documents\Arduino\libraries\ This pattern though relative did not point to the libraries in the relocated project. The Solution Explorer window did not reflect that they were externally located. I resolved the situation by "remove"-ing them from the solution then Add Library from the Vmicro menu again (cloned to project subfolders). Thanks so much for the suggestion.


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