[CMake] Workflow of a collaborative project in Visual Studio+CMake

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sat Nov 12 11:08:33 EST 2011


On 11/12/2011 10:51 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> It basically comes down to the inconvenience of having to do that with
>> Visual Studio being outweighed (considerably!) by the cross-platform
>> benefits of CMake.  (It does help that none of our developers use Windows as
>> their primary development platform, so it only comes up when we make sure
>> things are working on Windows...)
>>
>
> I use Visual Studio 2010 daily for the last 6 months or so and the bug
> is not that difficult for me to work with at all. I do admit it is
> annoying when you get prompted 50 times to reload projects but most of
> the time it does not do that. I mean if you only add files to a single
> project it will not prompt you for the other 49. Now if I know the
> change will be big, I usually close the solution and run cmake
> externally from a script.
>
Does this solution work for VS 2010:

There is an out of cmake solution for this.

http://vscommands.com/ [^]

If you install the VSCommands plugin free version, it will fix the 
reload dialog to only ask once.

-Bill



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