We have two large solution files that we would like to merge into a single solution.
We could just add the projects from solution A to solution B. But wondering if there is a less time consuming way to do this?
I had similar requirement to merge a few .sln files into one (Visual Studio 2013). What I did was:
Open one .sln in visual studio [File > Open > Project/Solution...]
Open second .sln in visual studio [File > Open > Project/Solution...] but select 'Add to Solution' option. You might then get warnings that project of same name already exists - ignore them. If there are duplicate folder names, you may need to resolve them after the projects are added to new .sln file
Repeat step 2 for all the rest of .sln files
This worked for me, not sure what would happen in case of duplicate GUIDs though.
I just solved this myself using Perl and some regex magic
The script should work for both Windows and Linux, though I developed and ran it on Linux.
It's quite error-prone merging two versions of the same solution file - merging two separate files would be even more error-prone in my opinion.
I know no tools for this - my normal approach has been to use VS itself and manually add the projects.
You can try playing around with this tool:
http://code.google.com/p/merge-solutions/
It can also detect and fix duplicate guilds in projects/solution items that is a common result of project-wide copypaste.
I had to make my own a few days ago
download source+bin (54KiB)
(no license/public domain/copyleft/whatever makes you feel good:)
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At my company, our software for one set of services is broken out into many different solutions containing any number of 350+ projects. My job at the company is to trace through all of this code to find where errors occur.
To facilitate this, I would like to have all of the projects contained within a single solution. I can do this via the 'Add Existing Project...' menu item, but it only allows me to add one project at a time. I also noticed that I can add existing items (multiple simultaneously) from Windows Explorer by dragging them onto a solution folder, but that doesn't import projects; it only adds the project file itself to the folder.
Is there a way to add multiple projects to a solution simultaneously? I realize that this may (read: will) take a long time.
I think you are looking for something like this:
http://nprove.codeplex.com/
This allows to load a a project or a folder with projects from the team foundation source control explorer into the current solution.
A solution would be to create a small program that takes as input the list of projects you want to add to your solution (or that scans a directory for *.csproj, *.vbproj...) and writes to the *.sln file of your solution.
If you open a *.sln file with notepad, you'll see there is no magic in it, it's just a text file that contains the list of projects (with their GUID) and some information about the build configuration.
Look at the structure of a solution file and try to write a piece of code that does the same as visual studio when user adds a project to the solution.
I'm pretty sure that can be automated with a small effort. Just a matter of file parsing.
Visual Studio Extension "Add Existing Projects" (Created by: Cyotek) allows you to add multiple projects to one solution by selecting all once. Worked perfectly for me on VS2017.
I have two Visual Studio 2005 solutions, one of which builds a binary and all of its dependencies, and one of which builds a web app and some utilities and an installer for them. Up until now, we've had the aforementioned binary just included in the installer as a static file; I want to take all of the projects from that binary's solution and have them be part of the installer solution, for a single once-through build of everything.
As far as I can tell, I can't add the existing projects from the binary's solution without losing the dependency information. This will work, but since there are 20 some projects involved, I want to preserve dependency information when moving the projects in. It's looking like I may just have to do this in a text editor with the solution XML... is there a better way?
Note that this is NOT the same as the related questions about merging two versions of the same solution file.
There's a way to do this built in to Visual Studio. Right click the solution, and select Add -> Existing Project. Select the other solution from there.
If you want to automate the process you can try playing around with this tool
http://code.google.com/p/merge-solutions/
You might want to consider using references instead of the dependencies. Those are stored in project's file and consequently are preserved across solutions. There might be something which can be done with Dependencies and not with References, however I am not aware of any such situation and for simple uses references are more than enough.
Try selecting all of the project nodes in the tree then drag & drop them into the other solution.
In an earlier question, I've found out that sadly Solution Folders are not real folders inside a directory.
I wonder if there is an AddOn or Macro that adds this functionality? i.e. when I create a Solution Folder, it created a real folder. When I Create a new Item (Right Click => Add => New Item) it automatically moves them into that folder, removing causes it to delete it from disk (after asking) etc.
This is for Visual Studio 2005, although we might upgrade to 2008 in a few months.
As of now, this doesn't seem to be possible in either VS 2005, 2008 and 2010 and there is no AddIn for this.
I too thought it was a strange idea. However it can be a useful tool to logically group projects in solutions without necessarily moving around folders in the file system.
I suspect you need this for revision control tool. In that case Look at AnkhSVN.
Maybe what you want is to add files to a solution folder as «links», i.e., keeping the files where they are but giving them a different organization inside the solution.
(when you add an existing file to a solution folder or to a normal project folder, if it is in a different corresponding physical folder, the file is copied).
It usually stays unnoticed, an option in the «Add > Existing Item ...» dialog where you can choose "Add As Link", instead of the "Add".
This allows to share files amongst projects, or, simply, organize them differently.
What I oftem miss is the possibility to add "virtual" folders inside a project, for organizational purposes, without breaking the namespace/folder best-practice.
Can't really get the point you want to add this function.
Sometimes you want to know if it can do this , however, the answer may be no. But it is not necessary means you can't achieve your original goal, there still a few ways to work around it without this.
Additionally, VS solution suppose to be the shortcut of your project settings and should not been included in any hard-code, the solutions may be various between the PCs and IDE envrionment.
I didn't really use VS2005 much, but have been using VS2008 for the past year.
It has a tick box for creating a solution folder when you create a new solution/project.
If you then use the "Solution Explorer" window you can create and manipulate folders and class files within them. This will actually create new directories that match.
Deletion of files from within the Solution Explorer will also delete the actual files from disk.
Pretty much what the title says. Is there a way to add files to a vsnet project from inside Vim? I work in a group of devs, and all of our code has solutions and projects as you would expect. I would like to use Vim, and was hoping for a way to maintain those project files when I added or removed files without having to go into vsnet.
The project and solution files are in xml and are hand-edittable. (I often have to during an SVN merge.) However, HUGE DISCLAIMER AHOY, adding stuff from scratch is a lot more dubious than an svn merge. I get to see the lines and just move them in (or not) here or there. To be confident that you're not destroying the proj and sln files, you would have to experiment with visual studio a little bit to make sure what has to be added.
There are more IDEs than visual studio... perhaps there's some clues in their guts.
The problem is that you're trying to fit Vim into the role of an IDE, which it is not and has never claimed to be. You can edit just about anything under the sun, but when you start asking it to manage files and relationships like I think you're wanting, you're asking for a major headache.
I'm trying to build a small VS 2005 solution I've just checked out of source control, and I'm getting this easy to understand error:
...\AssemblyInfo.cs' could not be
opened ('The system cannot find the
file specified. ') (The file is fairly
obviously missing)
Because this file's automatically generated, I've never paid it much heed before, and in VS 2003 (which I still work with day to day - pity me) it never seems to matter if it's missing.
So 2 questions:
1. How can I get VS 2005 to regenerate the file.
2. Could anyone explain to me in a couple of sentences what the assembly info file is all about, why it's generated, why it's a good idea to have an automatically generated file critical to my solution building etc etc.
Thanks - Andrew.
Edit: OK, I've googling some more, and it's probably significant that this is in an Nunit Test Project.
Update: Deleting the reference in solution explorer an Alex suggested did the trick, and the project now builds, but I'm not entirely happy with that as a solution. If the file is so unimportant, why is it generated in the first place? And if the file does perform a vital task, what am I missing out on by just deleting it?
Also, is it even possible to get it back? Either by getting VS to regenerate it, or by manually hacking one up (possibly using another as a template)?
This file contains assembly-wide settings like assembly version, name, etc. It is automatically generated when you change those settings using properties pages of the project. You should have this file in the project with sort of transparent icon (I think it is in resource folder or something like this by default). Locate it in the project tree and delete it. Visual studio will stop looking for it during build.
PS: assuming the path starts with .. and not ... then this file should be located one folder up from the project in the source control. So you can try looking there.