What is the trick to make Visual Studio 2008 use project relative paths for include dirs etc?

Question

Hi I have a VS 2008 solution with around 10 projects. When I add include directories by launching browse popup and select a dir, I see VS storing the absolute path in the project file. What I want it to do is use project relative paths even for paths in sibling folders.

Is there any setting in VS to force it?

Thanks

Answer 1

no there isn't: the borwse button opens the standard open file dialog, this returns full paths, and VS just uses that. You'll have to enter the paths manually, or create a macro/addin that resolves the relative pahts.