
New Item or New File?ĭo you use New File or New Item? And why are these options buried? The File menu only shows New File which is the obvious place to look, but very likely the wrong choice, when you really want the New Item dialog.īy default the New File.

So, here are a few annoyances and a few tips to make adding new items to a project more bearable. Dialog and how it works has to rank at the top of the list.Īdding new files to a project is a common task and honestly I think much of the criticism leveled at Visual Studio from non Visual Studio developers who first use Visual Studio can be traced back to the convoluted way of adding files to a project. When I think of things that annoy me the most in Visual Studio's IDE, the Project New Item.
