View more than one project solution in Visual Studio

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I am new to visual studio and I am experimenting around with some Windows Services  I have created two solutions and I would like to view both of them at once  Without having to click file- recent projects to switch back and forth   Ideally this could take place in the solution explorer and just nest the projects  but I am only able to view one solution project at a time there   Is there anyway to view multiple solutions projects in Visual Studio

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Just right click on the Visual Studio icon and then select  New Window  from the contextual toolbar that appears on the bottom in Windows 8  A new instance of Visual Studio will launch and then you can open your second project

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You can have multiple projects in one instance of Visual Studio  The point of a VS solution is to bring together all the projects you want to work with in one place  so you can t have multiple solutions in one instance  You d have to open each solution separately

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Two ways come to mind      Open another visual studio window and open the second solution in it  It would be preferable to add your existing projects to one solution  just right click and add existing project and navigate to the project file csproj        e g  C  Users User Documents Visual Studio 2012 Projects MySqlWindowsFormsApplication1 MySql Windows Forms Project1 MySql Windows Forms Project1 csproj       In this second way you might want to setup multiple start up projects i e  for people with client-server apps or apps with dependencies      To do this Select the solution then GoTo  Project  Properties  Startup Project   Select Multiple Startup projects and set actions to Start  When you debug  the selected as start will run  For interest sake you could open another multiple solution windows to view different projects at the same time  http   www schwammysays net visual-studio-2012-tip-multiple-solution-explorers

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This is the way Visual Studio is designed  One solution  one Visual Studio  VS  instance   Besides switching between solutions in one VS instance  you can also open another VS instance and open your other solution with that one  Next to solutions there are as you said  projects   You can have multiple projects within one solution and therefore view many projects at the same time

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There s a much easier  but not so obvious  way  right click on the Visual Studio icon in the taskbar  then right click on the application name in the popup menu  then click  Open   Windows will then open another instance where you can open another solution in

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After a long research and different experiments the easiest way  quot FOR MAC USERS quot  is to create a script  open -a  quot Visual Studio quot     quot path to first sln quot     quot path to second sln quot          D

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If you have two separate solutions  then you cannot view them simultaneously in the same VS instance  However  you can open multiple instances of VS and tab between them   An alternative would be to import the projects from one solution into the other  thus putting all of your projects into one solution  You can do this by following these steps    In the Solution Explorer  select the Solution into which you want to import a project  Right-click  and select Add- Existing Project from the context menu  In the file chooser  find the project file that you want to import  it will end in  XXproj where XX is the language you re using   Click Open and voila  Your project is imported

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There is a way to store multiple solutions in one instance of VS   Attempt the following steps    File   Open   Project Solution  This will bring up the open project window  notice at the bottom where it says options  select add to solution       Then select the file you want to add and click open This will then add the solution to your project  You still won t be able to run the same project in a single instance of VS  but you can have all your code organized in one place      NOTE  This worked for Visual Studio 2013 Professional

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Don t know whether this is useful but if you want to work with multiple projects without navigating through projects tree  like multi window  you can try opening VS in another virtual desktop  at least it s possible for Windows 10  by holding Ctrl win D  Then open another VS studio and open your other project there  You can switch between projects by Ctrl win arrow key  left right

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MAC users - this issue was winding me up  as its not possible to open two different Visual Studio instances at the same time   Ive found a solution that works fine  though its a little unorthodox   get the latest beta testing version  which will install alongside your normal VS install in a separate sandbox  it does this automatically    You can then run both versions side by side  which is enough for what I needed - to be able to examine one project for structure  code etc   while doing the actual coding I need to do in the  current  VS install instance

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You can create a new blank solution and add your different projects to it

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