 Hello, Syed Hashimi here with another Visual Studio Format Tips and Tricks video. In this video, I'm going to show you two tips on how to work with multiple solutions. First, I'm going to show you how you can open more than one solution in the same instance of the IDE. And then after that, I'm going to show you how you can launch multiple different instances where you can load up different solutions of Visual Studio Format. Alright, in Visual Studio Format, here I have a particular solution loaded up and imagine that your boss comes over to you as you're kind of knee-deep working in a feature and says, hey, I need you to make a bug fix in this other application that you were previously developing. So we can do that. You don't have to stop your workflow and close out of everything. What you can do is, using Visual Studio Format, we have a kind of a workspace concept here. And the workspace represents a single instance of the IDE. So it's possible to load up more than one solution inside a single instance. I'll show you exactly how to do that now. So I'm going to go to the file open. This is the open project dialogue. I'm going to first select the solution that I want to open. And then I'm going to go down to options. You can see we have a checkbox here for close current workspace. I'm going to uncheck that checkbox and then click open. As I do that, keep an eye out to the solution pad. So we can see that the previous application that I was working on is still loaded up, the .NET new web solution. And now I also have my web app solution node that has been opened here. The way that this works is whatever file you're currently editing, the solution that's associated with that will actually be the one that's going to be launched on run or debug. For example, here I'm editing the template pack controller that's a part of templates API. If I was to click the run button, it will launch the .NET new web solution. So let's go ahead and do that. Here we can see that it has successfully started the .NET new web application. Let me go back to Visual Studio for Mac and I'm going to stop debugging that. I'll minimize the .NET new web. And then I'm going to open a file that's associated with the my web app. And then I'll go ahead and click the play button on that. Here we can see it has successfully loaded up the my web app project instead of the .NET new web. So let's go back to Visual Studio for Mac. Let me stop this. Another thing to keep an eye out is the toolbar that's here that will also give you an indicator as to which solution is currently active. You can see when I'm on my web app, I get debug and default as the options. But when I go into a file that's associated with the API or the web project, the .NET new web, I get some different options here. That's because the .NET new web solution contains a run configuration to launch more than one project on start. Alright, after you're done making your bug fix in the my web app, you can right click on the solution and select close. That will bring you back to the previous solution that you are working on. And let me show you another way that you can do this same thing using the recent solution. So I'll go to file, recent solutions. And then here, if I were to click on control, hold control while you click on the node here, so my web app, that would do the same thing. Instead of closing the current workspace, that'll keep the current workspace open and then open the additional solution into that workspace. Let's move on to our second tip, which is how can you open more than one instance of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE? So we don't have a built-in feature to enable you to launch more than one instance today, but we can use the terminal to do this very easily. All I have to do is execute a command, so it's open, dash in, dash a, and then the path to the application that we want to launch. The default location for Visual Studio for Mac is applicationsvisualstudio.app. So I'm going to go ahead and execute this. This will then open a new instance of Visual Studio for Mac. Here you can open up a separate solution that you might have been working on previously. So let me go ahead and open that, and then I'll bring it side by side to my other instance. All right, so here I've got my original instance of Visual Studio for Mac, where I was developing my .NET new web application, and then I've opened up a second instance of Visual Studio for Mac for my native iOS and Android project here. All right, to recap in this video, we showed you two tips on how to work with multiple solutions. We showed you how to open multiple solutions in the same instance or workspace of Visual Studio for Mac, and then we showed you how to launch more than one instance of Visual Studio for Mac. This is Sayed Hashimi. Please keep an eye out for future videos in this Visual Studio for Mac tips and tricks video series.