Combining Multiple Solutions into one Solution in VS2010

I have a solution file that has the following example projects: SharedLibrary No开发者_开发知识库nSharedLibrary WebProject WebProject.Install

Then another solution file that has the following example projects: SharedLibrary WindowsServiceProject WindowsServiceProject.Install

Currently I open both in two separate instances of VS2010. The share library is the same in both but shared through my source control. Is there an easy way to create another Solution file that when opened, opens all necessary projects for both. Then when testing, etc. you just change your startup project.

All the while maintaining the ability to open the old solutions if you want to just work on one of them.

Has any one does this before and/or know of a good methodology?

Visual Studio solutions are basically containers that group projects together. You can reuse the same projects in multiple solutions. A common way of handling this is to have one solution that contains all of your projects. Then create additional solutions that only load some of the projects. For example, you might make one solution for UI developers that only loads the projects they need while other developers might not care about the UI but need the windows service.

Each developer can set their own startup project which is stored in their local .suo file.

If you have multiple solutions open simultaneously and you change one project then you'll get the reload message in the other instance since they are shared.

Sure. Just create a new (or several) empty solutions right next to your existing one and then just add to it the projects you want to see there (Add Existing project)