Why in the world can't we just have a "save As" menu item?

[realolman]

I have been fooling with this project for a long time on VS 2015 and VS 2022... and I would like to just save what I already did under another name.
There are a number of websites telling you how to do that with file explorer and other ways ... there WAS a menu item on VS2015 to "make new project from exiting files". I finally found out how to get that on VS 2022, but it never did make a startup item, and it saves the new stuff in the same folder as the old project ... with no opportunity to save it in a new folder ... instead putting more files in the existing folder.

Why can't we just have a "Save as" menu item that saves all the same files we are using now in a new folder under a new name?

thank you
Realolman

 

[jmcilhinney]

Given the fact that you can just drag and drop in File Explorer to do that, it seems a fairly useless function. Not many people would need to use and those who do have an easy alternative.

 

[realolman]

well my problem is, not being as knowledgeable as many, I don't know what files need to be moved... especially after the "make new project from existing files" has added a bunch more of them to the same folder.

The whole idea is being to be able to make some possibly large scale changes to something and not wanting to mess up what I already have.

Just look at the options that ARE available.

... and you're telling me that "Save as" was just too useless to include and that the alternative is easy?... I don't agree with either of those. I would think the purpose of the IDE would be to make it easier to do things ... not to force you to use some other application

Realolman

 

[jmcilhinney]

Firstly, it sounds like you should be using source control, which would allow you to create a new branch based on an existing branch, thus allowing you to make changes to the new branch without affecting the existing branch

Secondly, the alternative is easy, because it's simply dragging and dropping a folder in File Explorer, while other options that seem useless to you may not have such easy alternatives.

Thirdly, the "why" doesn't even matter because it doesn't change the outcome, so why ask "why" in the first place?

 

[realolman]

"Thirdly, the "why" doesn't even matter because it doesn't change the outcome, so why ask "why" in the first place?"

I see now that is true