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I just discovered a misterious file in my (new) Visual Studio 2012 C++/CLI project: app.aps.
I can find no reference on the internet about it. What is it meant for? Can I safely delete it? It seems so. Should I ignore or include in my commits to source version control?
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What is an APS file format? An APS File is created by Visual C++, a software development application by Microsoft. It saves the binary representation of a resource incorporated with the project and it allows the application to load resources more rapidly. You can easily find these files with . aps file extension.
How to open APS files. You need a suitable software like Visual Studio to open an APS file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert.
It's a generated file for designer efficiency, you can ignore it in source control:
File created by Microsoft Visual C++, a software development application; stores the binary representation of a resource included with the project; enables the application to load resources more quickly.
http://fileinfo.com/extension/aps
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APS files are the binary versions of resource files. As resource editor does not directly read the .rc and resource.h files, the resource compiler turns them into the APS file.
Reference - Files Affected by Resource Editing
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