What does mean the icon in the projects in Visual Studio?

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I work with the Visual Studio 2019 (ver. 16.5.1), and suddenly a weird icon appeared in my projects:

I'm not really sure what the icon means, it seems to be a box or something similar.

What does the icon mean exactly? Is there something broken in my solution?

@PavelAnikhouski the project tree is expanded, the files seems to be ok but the cs files have the same icon. I've run some tests and the solution is working well — Phi, Sep 04 '20 at 15:48
What source control (if any) are you using for this solution? — Alexis Murray, Sep 04 '20 at 17:05
@MichaelMurray Perforce has been added to the solution as version controller, it explains everything, thanks — Phi, Sep 07 '20 at 16:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '20 at 17:18

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Thanks to the comments in both, question and the Efthymios's answer, I was able to know that this icon (star or box, still unclear what it is) is related to the Perfoce Control Version that was added to the solution.

answered Sep 07 '20 at 17:18

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 15:48

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Nothing is broken in your Visual Studio. Probably they added icons to beautify the display of the projects in your solution. If I am not mistaken:

the first icon in the picture is a C# project,
the second one is probably a web project (maybe ASP.net)
and the third one is a test project

answered Sep 04 '20 at 15:48

Efthymios Kalyviotis

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Yes, I'm aware the kind of the project and its icons, I'm asking about the weird white and red box in the left side of the project icon – Phi Sep 04 '20 at 15:50
I don't know about the star but usually on the left are icons of the Version Control system showing some status (eg. Git). – Efthymios Kalyviotis Sep 04 '20 at 16:00

What does mean the icon in the projects in Visual Studio?

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