There's no 'natural' way of editing the project files: if you think that the 'natural' way of doing it is by clicking junk in a gui, then you are assuming too m

There's no 'natural' way of editing the project files: if you think that the 'natural' way of doing it is by clicking junk in a gui, then you are assuming too much. While I'm probably in the minority, I edit my *.csproj files by hand and build from the command line for several of my projects. I do this for the exact reasons that you mention: I like control in the engineering process. I'm unhappy that VS 2013 is putting user settings in the proj file willy nilly and I hope that it's fixed soon.