How do I make a Visual Studio 2010 solution read-only?

Question

How do I make a Visual Studio 2010 solution read-only?

Answer 1

You have to set the solution (and all other files that you want to protect) to read-only on the operating system level. So for windows select the files, then right click, select properties and then check the read-only check box. The read-only annotation shows up when you are reloading the project. To make the solution/project writeable just uncheck the read-only checkbox.

Note: When setting the solution to read-only, you cannot add any new projects to it, however, the projects remain writeable.