Question

I would like to write a program or script that would generate .vcproj and .sln files for me. I currently have a lot of settings/configurations that I need to set for every .vcproj I create and I have seen people be able to generate these files some how, although I can not find a good resource through msdn or bing to do so. Could someone please post a link to a resource or perhaps a guide on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can generate .sln/.vcproj with MSVS object model. It can be macros or add-in. This sample is a macros to generate .sln/.vcproj.

Sub SlnVcprojGenerator()
    Dim sln As Solution
    Dim prj As Project
    sln = DTE.Solution
    sln.Create("C:\test", "new_sln.sln")
    prj = sln.AddFromTemplate("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCWizards\default.vcproj", "c:\test", "new_prj", True)
    sln.SaveAs("C:\test\new_sln.sln")
End Sub