VSZipper

One of the most important lessons children learn at a very young age is the importance of being organized and channeling an uncluttered mind into an efficient workspace to maintain control over themselves and their impulses. The same idea should apply to our digital surroundings as well, which can get filled with extra copies of existing copies of files and other needless items requiring lengthy cleanup sessions, which is where a neat app known as VSZipper comes into play, designed to help developers create archives of a project’s most essential content to save space and make more efficient backups.

To begin with, users can either retrieve the program’s source code and manually build it using the developer’s recommended command through a terminal prompt, or download the already compiled package. Afterward, triggering the core functionality is done by simply placing the app’s executable and attached settings files within a Visual Studio project’s directory before running it to summon a zipped archive file containing only the configuration templates required for use in the Integrated Development Environment to make updates and clean up the code.

This particular function may come in handy when wrapping work on a program with multiple iterations in which features were added initially and removed due to user feedback, but may still be of use for future concepts or reintegrating them within other utilities in the future, and archiving just the core projects’ components instead of the included binaries and certain dependencies can save a tremendous amount of space for those who just need snippets of code as opposed to full-blown executables.

Moreover, given its portable format, the program can be easily added to on-the-go USB flash drive-powered setups for those who tend to switch between their work and personal devices without having to worry about synchronizing settings locally or over the cloud. Finally, since its source code is openly available, those with programming experience can make suggestions or add their own contributions to help the original developer work on future updates laid out on the roadmap, such as integrating the functionality in the right-click context menu or adding more parameters to the app itself.

Whether you want to automate the process of backing up multiple versions of your apps’ project files, or you simply wish to send those items in a more lightweight package to coworkers for further code analysis, VSZipper could prove useful, given its fast-paced execution pattern that should adapt to your workflow with ease.