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Does Visual Studio 2015 have a "Save A Copy As" feature for files, like IDLE and Notepad++? Currently, if I had somethning like test.cpp in a solution, I use "Save As" to save it to test2.cpp. test.cpp would be gone, so I'd just re-open it.
It's not much of a hassle, I just want to know if "Save a Copy As" feature or something like it exists in VS for convenience.
DragonautX
Posted 2017-03-22T22:52:05.420
Reputation: 113
Have you tried? Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition is free. Microsoft also has FREE VMs which include VS2015 – Ramhound – 2017-03-22T22:54:08.867
@Ramhound Ya. I have VS 2015 with me right now. I can't find anything in the File menu. I was wondering if the feature existed somewhere else. – DragonautX – 2017-03-22T22:55:30.917
You were wondering if "Save As" was hidden somewhere else other the. The File context menu, that would be a, "no it's not" – Ramhound – 2017-03-22T22:58:37.010
@Ramhound Oh ok. Thanks. Would've been nice to have it though. – DragonautX – 2017-03-22T23:01:28.883
That's why I asked if you had looked... – Ramhound – 2017-03-22T23:15:33.293
not exactly what you ask for, but you can just copy paste any file in solution explorer – wmz – 2017-03-23T00:13:10.010
This is an old question, but it's still annoying how Save As in VS is implemented. I can't imagine why they thought that Save As always means remove the previous file from the project. It's like they thought Save As was Rename. – Scott Gartner – 2018-11-15T18:52:03.433