"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote in message news:20040613224549.D317431637@acme.west.net...
Jeff Flinn wrote:
If it's VisualStudio, you can add the extensions to the registry to act like headers or source(compilable) files. I would bet most others have a similar facility.
Please tell us how to do that. I looked for this and couldn't find it. I would like to tell my Visual.Net IDE to treat *.ipp file like *.hpp and *.cpp for editing purposes.
In VC7.1 IDE you select the Tools >> Options menu. Then select Projects >> VC++ Build from the Tree View. Add ,*.ipp to the C/C++ File Extensions property, then Ok. Note: any .ipp files that have been added to the project will be compiled by default when ever you do a build. You need to manually exclude the files from the build process. Select the .ipp files, then Project >> Properties. Select Configuration >> General from the left TreeView. Change Exclude From Build to Yes. Sorry for not specifying this sooner, since I specifically added .ipp while working with earlier versions of serialization library. VC6 IDE requires editing the registry. If any one needs that I can dig through and see what I did there as well. Jeff Flinn