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P4 for Visual Studio Documentation | 2025.1

# P4 - Connections

Set the following preferences to determine how you connect to P4 Server in Visual Studio. To save your changes, click OK.

## When opening a project under source control

- Show the P4 server Connection: Prompt for connection settings whenever you open a project that is under P4 Server source control.
- Connect to the server using my most recent settings: Without prompting for connection settings, reconnect to the P4 Server you were connected to during your last session.
- Connect to the server using solution-specific settings: Without prompting for connection settings, connect to the P4 Server you last used for the solution or project that you are opening.
- Connect to the server using my P4 environment settings: Connect using Windows environment variables for P4 Server connections, which you set using the P4 Server Command-Line Client or P4V, the P4 Visual Client (P4V). To learn more, see the P4 CLI Documentation or the P4V help.

## Opening and closing connections

- Use IP-specific tickets when logging in: Specifies whether your login ticket is restricted to the IP address from which you are connecting.
- Automatically log off when closing a connection: Specifies whether your ticket is invalidated when you log out.

## Saved connections

[P4VS-2768] If you have saved connections, they remain in the list of 5 most recently used connections. If you no longer need to use a saved connection, select it in this list and click Remove to delete it from the preferences.

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