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Solution Explorer and Scope to This

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Solution Explorer and Scope to This

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- [Instructor] Did you know that you can have multiple Solution Explorer windows open? It's true and in this tip, I'll show you how to compare files across projects without using a div tool. By default, when you open Solution Explorer the root node of the Explorer is the Solution and then it has these children nodes, which are each of the projects. I'll use these top two projects for this demonstration, BasicMvc and BasicRazorPages. I use these in some of my conference talks where I'm talking about the file structure differences between an asp.net MVC project and an asp.net razor page project. So, the first thing I want to do is create a new Solution Explorer window showing this project. To do that, I right click and choose new Solution Explorer view. You see that I now have two Solution Explorers and I can switch back and forth between the two of them. What I like to do is put the title bars at the same position,…

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