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suo is the file extension for the Solution User Options File for Visual Studio.

The suo file was first introduced in Visual Studio 2005. It continues to be used in the latest version of Visual Studio 2013. Data is stored in a binary format every time a solution is saved or closed.

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Tool to view the contents of the Solution User Options file (.suo)

Are there any free tools available to view the contents of the solution user options file (the .suo file that accompanies solution files)? I know it's basically formatted as a file system within the file, but I'd like to be able to view the contents…
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How can I open a Visual Studio solution without loading all of its projects?

I have big solution in Visual Studio that has some Android, Windows Phone and iOS Xamarin projects. Unfortunately, Visual Studio hangs (for hours) when it tries to load the whole solution. It worked fine as long as I usually only loaded either the…
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How to avoid (or lessen the risk of) corruption of the suo file?

I know that this question is a little "questionable" because it doesn't have a concrete and precise answer, but before you downvote I ask you to see for the value of the question itself. Lots of SO users had suffered this problem, and someone may…
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Visual Studio 2010: How create new web project from existing code?

I've a working website without project / solution. How can I generate a new project from this code? Thanx
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How to configure my solution to show all projects collapsed on Visual Studio?

Every time I check out my solution from the SCM I have to collapse manually each project in my solution to get a good overview of it. I know that the collapsed settings are stored in a .suo file, which is binary. I don't want to commit this file to…
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type or namespace name could not be found, for all namespaces in MVC4 project

We are in the process of upgrading our MVC3 site to MVC4 plus converting all the .aspx views to Razor .cshtml. Project still targets the .NET Framework 4 (I'm trying to tackle one big change at a time here). Right now the web app project in Visual…
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Visual Studio session management

When working on a particular bug or feature I like to have a certain set of files open (among other things). When I switch between tasks I don't like to lose all this context - so I found that I can make a copy of the .suo file from the Visual…
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suo file not saved in VS2010

I have a Visual Studio 2010 project that recently I noticed that the .suo file is missing AND is not saved each time I exit VS. More specifically, as I exit VS a new .suo file with 0 KB is created and then almost immediately deleted. It seems as…
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Modify .suo file

I need to modify a .suo file. Basically, I have a client-server application. The client needs a "cookie" to log into the server, which is generated every day and retrieved on the client machine by another process. This "cookie" needs to be set in…
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What is .wsuo file?

In my project, while cloning existing repository, there is immediately added one new file. What is that? Am I allowed to push it or should I ignore it in .gitignore? There already exists .suo file... Could the reason be that I have installed the…
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How to include a project in a solution but have it unloaded by default?

Is this possible to configure in the SLN file, or just in the SUO?
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Visual Studio 2012 - State Does Not Update for Content Window When Starting New Session

I have an issue where the state of my VS2012 application does not update. I have the same three code files opening in the content window every time I start Visual Studio. These are not the last files I was working on. I bet it is a caching…
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VS2010 - Open a solution, file in this sln will open too

i created a little application (win forms) thats create a solution, adds a project and some files to the project. By clicking a button, the new solution should open by the installed vs2010 express. Thats works fine, everything is ok. My question, is…
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Are suo (solution option) files portable? or tied a user or to that particular instance of the solution?

In Visual studio 2008 -- For my particular project, I only care about a subset of a solution. I handle this by unloading the projects I don't need. I know these settings are saved in suo. So what I'd like to do is save off the suo file with these…
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Visual studio 2013 community edition doesn't open solution file

I am using VS 2013 community edition. It doesn't open one of my solution. I came to know that '.suo' file is a reason for that. After deleting .suo file its worked perfectly. But every time i need to delete that file whenever I opened that…
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