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

This seems to come up every now and then.

• Merging vcproj files - SCM's hell

Perhaps it is a problem ripe for a plug-in or other normalizing tool.

It would be a great side-business, until MS decides to fix it. Then you're out of luck - unless of course they offer to buy your IP.

Anyone want to start an open source project, or commercial product? I'm game.

I might have a go at a stand-alone normalizing tool, then see if I can turn it into a plugin.