How do I recover a deleted c# files for project folder

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I know it sounds stupid and not something related coding but I have no option left with me

I was working on a winform project without any version control I use to take the backup once a week and put it on shared folder

Today after 4 days coding I tried to copy paste my exe to a application server and all of a sudden (may be i had used some weird shortcut key) my app.config file get deleted. So i tried to recreate it by building the app in vs2013.

Now the application is unavailable and when i go to the project folder the project realted files like .csproj and .cs files are missing even the references and the ico files are missing. But I can see the folder structure of the modules inside the project folder.

Do anyone faced the issue before?,I tried to recover the files using many recovery tools but failed to get the files.can anyone suggest a idea or better recovery tools for vs2013 files..
I know this qstn worth a downvote but I have nos option left

Posted 3-Mar-15 5:17am

SREENATH GANGA

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Richard MacCutchan 3-Mar-15 11:47am

Are the files still in the project's directory, or in the Recycle Bin?

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Solution 2

They should still be in the trash folder (unless you've deleted a lot more/larger files since deleting the ones you want to recover). Click the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and see if they're in there. If so, right click and select the Restore in the context menu.

Posted 3-Mar-15 5:44am

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Updated 3-Mar-15 5:47am

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The files got overwritten or removed somehow.so what i had done is http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Overwritten-Files[^]

Posted 3-Mar-15 6:07am

SREENATH GANGA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-03T05:36:00

In general case, it can be too late to do so, the files could be lost forever, depending on what have you done after you deleted them. In programming, loosing of the previous versions of the source files is way more likely than in most other cases.

You can try to restore the file using any 3rd-party utilities. You can easily find some freeware. I don't think we can promote these products on this site.

Your real problem is very different. Apparently, you are not using any Revision Control system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System[^]). This is bad. Such system can be open-source, extremely light-weight, reliable, easy to use. I would say, until you start to use one on all your projects, you are not really doing software development, not owning it, leaving it to the first system malfunction or a slip of a hand. Worse, you cannot retrace your steps.

Please see this discussion: Revision control systems, which to choose from?[^].

—SA