From your Hard Drive to a Pen Drive (Flash Drive)
To copy a Project folder from your Projects folder on the Hard Drive to a Pen Drive, follow these steps:
- Exit Visual Basic 2008 and insert your pen drive
- Open the My Documents folder on the Start Menu.
- In the My Documents folder, double-click the Visual Studio 2008 folder to open it.
- Double-click on your Projects folder to open it. You should now be inside the projects folder here:
\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects
- Locate your Project folder that you want to copy, then double-clicking on it.
- Inside your Project folder, delete the Obj and Bin foldersùthese folders are created automatically when you open a project. Note: For some advanced class projects you may need to keep the Bin folder.
- Hit the Backspace key onceùor click the Back button on the toolbar. This moves you from inside your Project folder to back inside the Projects folder.
- Now right-click on the Project folder you want to copy and select your Pen Drive on the Send To fly-out menu. This copies the Project folder to your pen drive.
From a Pen Drive (Flash Drive) to the Hard Drive
To copy a Project folder from a Pen Drive to the Projects folder on the Hard Drive, follow these steps:
- Insert the Pen Drive that contains the Project folder you want to copy. Open My Computer on the desktop and double-click on the Pen Drive icon to access its contents.
- Right-Click on the Project folder that you want to copy and select Copy on the context menu.
- Open the My Documents folder on the Start Menu.
- Inside the My Documents folder, double-click the Visual Studio 2008 folder to open it.
- Right-Click on the Projects folder and select Paste on the context menu to paste a copy of the project folder from your Pen Drive into the Projects folder.