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Saving Visual Studio Settings for All Your Projects

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17 Apr 2024CPOL2 min read 8.5K   13  
How to use a .props file for your custom user settings across all your projects
This tip shows how to use a custom *.props file to save custom settings across all your Visual Studio projects. This method works for C++ projects and the technique should also work for C# and other projects although it is untested with them.

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