Please add the feature to choose where to put the csproj Files.
Like in the Thread from 3 years ago, there is still the problem, that EVERY csproj File is generated in the root folder, which leads to cluttering and unnecessary subfolders in Visual Studio for every Project added to the solution. See the post of brks9622 for example, who summarizes the problem and giving a nice clean solution. (Just place the csproj file in the same folder as the asmdef files…)
Got around 250 csproj files, which came from plugins, Unity itself and my program which could be easily managed, if they would be placed in the subfolders, instead of the root folder.
If there is a good reason, why you can’t add this feature, please let me know.
You should completely ignore .csproj and .sln files.
If you structure your files like this:
MyGame/MyGame/ <-- all the csprojs will end up here, out of sight
MyGame/MyGame/Assets
MyGame/MyGame/ProjectSettings
MyGame/MyGame/Packages```
Then set up your .gitignore correctly and never again think about it.
**PROPERLY CONFIGURING AND USING ENTERPRISE SOURCE CONTROL**
I'm sorry you've had this issue. Please consider using proper industrial-grade enterprise-qualified source control in order to guard and protect your hard-earned work.
Personally I use git (completely outside of Unity) because it is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up as well as free places to host your repo (BitBucket, Github, Gitlab, etc.).
You can also push git repositories to other drives: thumb drives, USB drives, network drives, etc., effectively putting a complete copy of the repository there.
As far as configuring Unity to play nice with git, keep this in mind:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/736093/3
I usually make a separate repository for each game, but I have some repositories with a bunch of smaller test games.
Here is how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/807568/3
Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/826718/2
Share/Sharing source code between projects:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/719810/2
Setting up an appropriate .gitignore file for Unity3D:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/834885/5
Generally the ONLY folders you should ever source control are:
Assets/
ProjectSettings/
Packages/
NEVER source control Library/ or Temp/ or Logs/
NEVER source control anything from Visual Studio (.vs, .csproj, none of that noise)
Setting git up with Unity (includes above .gitignore concepts):
https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-git-with-unity
It is only simple economics that you must expend as much effort into backing it up as you feel the work is worth in the first place. Digital storage is so unbelievably cheap today that you can buy gigabytes of flash drive storage for about the price of a cup of coffee. It's simply ridiculous not to back up.
If you plan on joining the software industry, you will be required and expected to know how to use source control.
Source control does require learning, but there are TONS of tutorials and courses and online reference.
**You should strive to use source control as well as you use your file/folder system.**
"Use source control or you will be really sad sooner or later." - StarManta on the Unity3D forum boards
This is a blatant copy and paste that appears to have nothing to do with the OP feature request. Please try not to clutter up the forum without reading what the OP said
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Right. Then every .csproj would have a .meta file and appear in the Project hierarchy as asset.
Unless of course special condition code is programmed in the editor which filters out the .csproj. Special case handling is generally a bad idea.
I rarely, if ever, look at the root of the project. And most cases where I do so is because I have a need to delete all .csproj and .sln files in one go. Keep in mind: that is one of the near-silver-bullet troubleshooting steps for Visual Studio quirks, as is deleting the Library folder for some project quirks. If these .csproj were spread out across the Assets tree … “well then, good night” as we say in german.
Like in the last thread, it looks like you don’t get the point.
To make it as clear as possible:
I would like to use the sln files and the .csproj files and compile as much as possible in Visual Studio. I don’t want to hide them. I want to use them (or at least the sln), so I would like them to be ordered, not hidden or removed.
Thank you for the long tutorial, but I am using git and know how to set it up…
Nevertheless, this question is not about version control, because as you mentioned, you just have to setup the .gitignore(s) correctly to not upload the sln/csproj files.
You are right I haven’t thought about that. The generation of meta files and Unity handling the csproj files as Assets would be a problem. Adding a subfolder like “root → vs”, would just remove the clutter in the root folder, but wouldn’t change the hierarchy problems in VS.
The “easy to delete” argument is also valid, even though you could find a fast dirty workaround.
Just search for every csproj file and delete all, a simple batch file would be enough a button in Unity would be nice
