Visual Studio Express doesn't save when building

[Leros]

I was working on a project tonight at home using Visual Studio Express C#. I was working for about 5 hours and I must have built the project at least 30 times. I was debugging it and it Visual Studio crashed on me.

I reopened Visual Studio and my project does not exist. I look in my project folder and my project does not exist. I search my harddrive, can't find it. I look in the recycle bin, its not there.

I use Visual Studio Professional at work and it creates files on every build. Is this just a limitation of Visual Studio Express or did I get some weird error?

I'm running GetDataBackNTFS in hopes that something got saved, but just deleted by accident on the crash.

I was working late so I could show off a prototype of an idea I had tomorrow. So much for that.

 

[Snapster]

It should do and by default saved somewhere like

Users or Docs/Settings \$name\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects

unless you specified a path for the project to reside in.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

No this is absolutely not normal. The project should exist somewhere from the moment you create it, even without saving. Maybe there was some sort of folder permission error that stopped it saving? Not sure. I can certainly relate to losing several hours worth of programming work though, sucks huh I know Visual Studio sometimes has problems saving to network drives, is this what you were doing?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Snapster
It should do and by default saved somewhere like

Users or Docs/Settings \$name\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects

unless you specified a path for the project to reside in.

Nope, that is where it should be. A guy at work confirmed that Visual Studio Express does not seem to save unless you actually save or close the program.

 

[Leros]

Upon further investigation:

"Save on project creation" and "save on build" are both disabled by default. WTF.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Leros
Upon further investigation:

"Save on project creation" and "save on build" are both disabled by default. WTF.

Did you perhaps import a settings file that had those options unchecked and you didn't realize it?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Crusty

Originally posted by: Leros
Upon further investigation:

"Save on project creation" and "save on build" are both disabled by default. WTF.

Did you perhaps import a settings file that had those options unchecked and you didn't realize it?

I've never installed Visual Studio on this computer before, so I would think not.

My coworker installed Visual Studio Express on his home computer too and found the same thing, so I must not be doing anything wrong.