Qt - Visual Studio - Work with projects on multiple computers

Question

I work with the same Visual Studio projects on multiple computers (work/home) using Dropbox to sync between the two. Because VS creates some extra large files, I used to remove

Answer 1

I am not familiar with dropbox so I can't speak for what you do currently

What I like to do is to use a distributed versioning system (I use git) to look after the source code only. I use a .gitignore file to not version any object code and visual studio project files and the like. I can then clone these projects (with their versioning) easily across to any computer I like - including test branches that I might idly play with when coming home on the train on my laptop.

In my experience visual studio project files are a pain because different versions do not play nicely with eachother (1 computer has vs2005 and another has vs2008). To overcome this problem I like to use cmake as my build system (I include these in my git repository too). Cmake is a 'meta-build system', in that it generates the visual studio, or eclipse, or autotools make files for you, and then you do the native build in VS or Eclipse or with make.

Using these two packages together means that you can copy properly versioned controlled source code between any computer (including linux, mac and windows) and then build the source code natively on that computer, using whatever IDE you have installed on that computer.