Question

I have solution sln, that has many csproj projects.

anyone know a way to programmatically read the list of References of all csproj projects in a VS2008 of sln file?

Answer 1

csproj files are just XML files. You can use XDocument from the .NET framework for this. I’ve done it for VS2010, but in VS2008 the tags are almost the same.

Example for VS2010, you have to verify the tags and namespace:

XElement projectNode = XElement.Load(fileName);
XNamespace ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003";
var referenceNodes = projectNode.Descendants(ns + "ItemGroup").Descendants(ns + "Reference")

You might also wanna check for the ProjectReference tag. Hope that helps.