Suggestions for maintaining Visual Studio vcproj project files in version control

Question

Microsoft Visual Studio uses XML to save its .vcproj project files. So diffing XML project files should be easily.

Unfortunately, if you change any

Answer 1

I think I've found the reason for this shuffle. At least in VS2008.

If you install the x64 compilers, VS will order projects as:

Debug|Win32
Debug|x64
Release|Win32
Release|x64

If you don't it will order them like:

Debug|Win32
Release|Win32
Debug|x64
Release|x64

So make sure all your peers have the same compiler set installed, so it won't shuffle.

Tested it and this behavior appears to be reproducible.