Switching to new Visual Studio Solution .slnx file format

[baseTwo]

The Visual Studio solution file format .sln is a proprietary file format that is difficult to interpret or modify by hand. It has mostly been unchanged for the past few decades. Meanwhile the old .csproj format got a new "SDK" style upgrade, which is much less decluttered that the version before.

The newer SDK style projects, assumes all files in a folder will be included into a project, where previously these had to be individually included. This means less conflicts when multiple developers work on the same folder at the same time when they modify files.

Recently Microsoft released a new .slnx solution format, that follows the same principal. No longer is it a flat file containing a lot of guids that is hard to understand. It too is an xml file.

We would very much like to update to the latest solution file, however, this is only available in Visual Studio 2022 Preview, as well as IntelliJ. On VS Preview, this feature still has to get opted-in.

(This poll will be open until end of November 2024)

[baseTwo]

Actually, I will close this poll. This feature is not ready yet. In the last 3 minor updates in Visual Studio, when the new Solution File Persistence Model feature is enabled, the solution does not load. I have submitted a ticket to Microsoft.