Setting Perforce connection settings using environment variables

You can set Windows environment variables for Perforce connection settings, which makes the settings available to P4VS and other Perforce client applications (for example, P4EXP, the Helix Plugin for Windows Explorer). Set Perforce connection settings as environment variables and configure your connection preferences in Tools > Options > Source Control to default to the environment variables.

Another approach is to create a configuration file that stores your Helix Core environment variables. You can then point to the configuration file using the environment variable P4CONFIG. P4VS searches the current working directory and its parents for the file. If the file exists, then P4VS uses the variable settings within the file. P4CONFIG makes it easy to switch Helix Core settings when switching between different solutions or projects. If you place a configuration file in each of your client workspaces and set P4CONFIG to point to that file, your Helix Core settings change to the settings in the configuration files automatically as you move from directories in one workspace to another.

For more information about how to use P4CONFIG with P4VS, see Setting Helix Core environment variables using P4CONFIG.

For more information about Helix Core environment variables, see the P4 Command Reference and Setting P4VS preferences.