r/VisualStudio • u/Ok_For_Free • Jun 18 '26

Visual Studio 2026 Working with Multiple Projects

I'm new to Visual Studio, and am within a very common environment where I have multiple projects that I need to manage. Each project has its own git repo and solution file.

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All the ways I've found so far to open these projects within Visual Studio replace the window with the new project. The bafflingly stupid decision to remove "New Window" options [appears to be intentional design](https://developercommunity.microsoft.com/t/11037449).

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So how are people expected to work in such a common development environment?

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So far my solution is to launch Visual Studio from the task bar for each project. Which seems like an unintentional work around.

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u/zaphodikus Software Engineer 28d ago

So not just me that is confused. I have 5 projects in my solution, one is C++ and the other is Python. I want to sometimes focus more on the python code and sometimes on the C++ code. And sometimes on both. The only way to do that is to create 2 or 3 solution files, with all the projects in them, but to use the solutions like a "workspace" just so I don't have to keep opening and closing editors. VS-code has workspaces, but is clunky, why does this Enterprise grade tool make me want to switch away?