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Manage Referenced Project Changes Using Checkpoints

In a Project, you can create a checkpoint for a referenced project. You can then compare the referenced project against the checkpoint to detect changes.

  1. In the project that contains the referenced project, select the References view.

  2. In the References tree, select the referenced project. If a checkpoint does not exist for the project, in the Details view, the Checkpoint field displays None.

  3. To create a checkpoint, in the Checkpoint section, click . In the Details view, the Checkpoint field displays the timestamp of the check point.

In future, to detect changes in the referenced project, in the Checkpoint section, click . The Difference to Checkpoint dialog box shows files that have changed on disk since you created the checkpoint.

To remove the checkpoint, in the Checkpoint section, click .

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