I just (re-)joined a company to work on some C++ projects. I'm looking at the files and I'm trying to figure out what all the Visual Studio related files are. Many I suspect are orphans from previous versions of the IDE.
I've listed all the file extensions below and annotated the ones I think I understand. If can provide more information about the individual files or how they different files are related, I would be very appreciative. I'd also like to hear advice on dealing with these files under some version control system (we use Visual SourceSafe for now).
.dsp - Developer Studio project (obsolete?)
.dsw - Developer Studio workspace (obsolete?)
.ncb - No compile browser file (for intellisense?)
.sln - Solution
.suo - Solution user options
.vcproj - VC++ project file
.vcproj.$DOMAIN.$USER.user - huh?
.vcproj.vspscc - ?
.vsscc - ?
.vssscc - ?
What drives me really crazy are the files that are binary rather than simple text files. Why does MS hate text files so much? Sigh...
-cr