Archiving a TwinCAT Project

This page contains changes which are not marked for translation.

Author avatarGareth Green | Last edit 21/03/2022 by Gareth Green being drafted

How to create an archive (Backup) a Visual Studio project

Introduction

There a many terminal and irretrievable problems that can occur when modifying a TwinCAT project on Visual Studio.

However, there is no issue that cannot be resolved, if the Visual Studio solution is archived.

This archive contains all data relevant to a project so you can start from scratch


Step 1 - Open Visual Studio


Step 2 - Right Click on Solution

Select "Save [buildNo] As Archive"



Step 3 - Standard Naming

Name the archive the same way each time

[BuildNo] YYY.MM.DD



Comments

Draft