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I work with the Visual Studio 2019 (ver. 16.5.1), and suddenly a weird icon appeared in my projects:

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I'm not really sure what the icon means, it seems to be a box or something similar.

What does the icon mean exactly? Is there something broken in my solution?

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  • What happens, when you expand the projects?
    – Pavel Anikhouski
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 15:34
  • @PavelAnikhouski the project tree is expanded, the files seems to be ok but the cs files have the same icon. I've run some tests and the solution is working well
    – Phi
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 15:48
  • What source control (if any) are you using for this solution?
    – Alexis Murray
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 17:05
  • @MichaelMurray Perforce has been added to the solution as version controller, it explains everything, thanks
    – Phi
    Commented Sep 7, 2020 at 16:51

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Thanks to the comments in both, question and the Efthymios's answer, I was able to know that this icon (star or box, still unclear what it is) is related to the Perfoce Control Version that was added to the solution.

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Nothing is broken in your Visual Studio. Probably they added icons to beautify the display of the projects in your solution. If I am not mistaken:

  1. the first icon in the picture is a C# project,
  2. the second one is probably a web project (maybe ASP.net)
  3. and the third one is a test project
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  • Yes, I'm aware the kind of the project and its icons, I'm asking about the weird white and red box in the left side of the project icon
    – Phi
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 15:50
  • I don't know about the star but usually on the left are icons of the Version Control system showing some status (eg. Git).
    – Efthymios Kalyviotis
    Commented Sep 4, 2020 at 16:00

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