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What does the red dot with three white dots mean in Visual Studio solution files folder, on Mac OS?


What does the red circle with the white dots mean, in the solution explorer of Visual Studio for Mac?

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Solution

  • It means "file is modified".

    Apparently the source-control annotations for Solution Explorer icons is still undocumented - even back when it was called Xamarin Studio, see this thread from 2018: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/2741/what-do-the-different-icon-annotations-mean