Are the settings in Visual Studio 2010 stored with the solution or with the IDE?

Question

Are the settings in Visual Studio 2010 stored with the solution or with the IDE?

Is there any way to have settings that are the default with the IDE and then overriden by the project?

Answer 1

Any settings affecting the user interface, the ones you set with Tools + Options are not stored in solution or project files. Nor is there a way to get a loaded solution to alter them. They are stored in the CurrentSettings.vssettings file, Documents/Visual Studio 20xx/Settings subdirectory of your user folder.