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  • =?Utf-8?B?c2lwcHl1Y29ubg==?=
    #1

    Set Project setting in Solution

    Hi

    I have a solution with 50 projects. They are all compiled in DEBUG mode and
    the output path has been modified to a custom directory

    I now want to build RELEASE mode and the Output Path needs to be reset for
    all the project to the custom directory

    Is there an easy way to do this besides opening 50 projects???

    - I was going to write a pgm to go to all directories and csproj files and
    edit that property ??? Anything easier???

    Thanks

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    • Jialiang Ge [MSFT]
      #2
      RE: Set Project setting in Solution

      Hello sippyuconn,

      Are your 50 projects in one solution (sln)? If yes, I may have an easier
      way to build the projects in Release mode.

      First, let's look at a sample sln file:

      =============== =============== =============== ===
      Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00
      # Visual Studio 2008
      Project("{FAE04 EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ExcelWorkbook4 ",
      "ExcelWorkbook4 \ExcelWorkbook4 .csproj",
      "{63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}"
      EndProject
      Project("{FAE04 EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ClassLibrary1" ,
      "ClassLibrary1\ ClassLibrary1.c sproj",
      "{98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}"
      EndProject
      Global
      GlobalSection(S olutionConfigur ationPlatforms) = preSolution
      Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
      Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
      EndGlobalSectio n
      GlobalSection(P rojectConfigura tionPlatforms) = postSolution
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Debug|Any CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any
      CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Debug|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any
      CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      EndGlobalSectio n
      GlobalSection(S olutionProperti es) = preSolution
      HideSolutionNod e = FALSE
      EndGlobalSectio n
      EndGlobal
      =============== =============== =============== ===

      This sln will build its projects to Debug Mode. We can update the
      postSolution section to:

      GlobalSection(P rojectConfigura tionPlatforms) = postSolution
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
      Release|Any CPU
      {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
      Release|Any CPU
      EndGlobalSectio n

      And build the solution (not the individual projects), to get the Release
      outputs.

      Hope it helps.

      Regards,
      Jialiang Ge (jialge@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
      Microsoft Online Community Support

      Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
      suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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      that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
      project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
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      Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
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        • =?Utf-8?B?c2lwcHl1Y29ubg==?=
          #3
          RE: Set Project setting in Solution

          Hi Thanks for the reply

          The 50 projects are in 1 solution - the issue is not so much DEBUG/RELEASE
          but the out put path

          <OutputPath>..\ ..\EXE\</OutputPath>

          In DEBUG mode all these paths were changed to above for testing - now we
          need to change for RELEASE - I was looking for an easy way to do that??


          Project1

          <Project ToolsVersion="3 .5" DefaultTargets= "Build"
          xmlns="http://schemas.microso ft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
          <PropertyGrou p>
          <Configuratio n Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)' == ''
          ">Debug</Configuration>
          <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
          <ProductVersion >9.0.21022</ProductVersion>
          <SchemaVersion> 2.0</SchemaVersion>
          <ProjectGuid>{E 8F17DC3-25E9-4822-8C23-808BFBBF1652}</ProjectGuid>
          <OutputType>Lib rary</OutputType>
          <AppDesignerFol der>Properties</AppDesignerFold er>
          <RootNamespace> DbMetaData</RootNamespace>
          <AssemblyName>D bMetaData</AssemblyName>
          <TargetFramewor kVersion>v2.0</TargetFramework Version>
          <FileAlignment> 512</FileAlignment>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <PropertyGrou p Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)|$(Platform)' ==
          'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
          <DebugSymbols>t rue</DebugSymbols>
          <DebugType>full </DebugType>
          <Optimize>false </Optimize>
          <OutputPath>..\ ..\EXE\</OutputPath>
          <DefineConstant s>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants >
          <ErrorReport>pr ompt</ErrorReport>
          <WarningLevel>4 </WarningLevel>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <PropertyGrou p Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)|$(Platform)' ==
          'Release|AnyCPU ' ">
          <DebugType>pdbo nly</DebugType>
          <Optimize>tru e</Optimize>
          <OutputPath>bin \Release\</OutputPath>
          <DefineConstant s>TRACE</DefineConstants >
          <ErrorReport>pr ompt</ErrorReport>
          <WarningLevel>4 </WarningLevel>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <ItemGroup>
          <Reference Include="System " />
          <Reference Include="System .Data" />
          <Reference Include="System .Xml" />
          </ItemGroup>



          Project 2

          <Project ToolsVersion="3 .5" DefaultTargets= "Build"
          xmlns="http://schemas.microso ft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
          <PropertyGrou p>
          <Configuratio n Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)' == ''
          ">Debug</Configuration>
          <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
          <ProductVersion >9.0.21022</ProductVersion>
          <SchemaVersion> 2.0</SchemaVersion>
          <ProjectGuid>{D A6168C4-C21D-441A-BF1A-16BD89A50DC1}</ProjectGuid>
          <OutputType>Win Exe</OutputType>
          <AppDesignerFol der>Properties</AppDesignerFold er>
          <RootNamespace> BuildMetaDataFr omDb</RootNamespace>
          <AssemblyName>B uildMetaDataFro mDb</AssemblyName>
          <TargetFramewor kVersion>v2.0</TargetFramework Version>
          <FileAlignment> 512</FileAlignment>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <PropertyGrou p Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)|$(Platform)' ==
          'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
          <DebugSymbols>t rue</DebugSymbols>
          <DebugType>full </DebugType>
          <Optimize>false </Optimize>
          <OutputPath>..\ ..\EXE\</OutputPath>
          <DefineConstant s>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants >
          <ErrorReport>pr ompt</ErrorReport>
          <WarningLevel>4 </WarningLevel>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <PropertyGrou p Condition=" '$(Configuratio n)|$(Platform)' ==
          'Release|AnyCPU ' ">
          <DebugType>pdbo nly</DebugType>
          <Optimize>tru e</Optimize>
          <OutputPath>bin \Release\</OutputPath>
          <DefineConstant s>TRACE</DefineConstants >
          <ErrorReport>pr ompt</ErrorReport>
          <WarningLevel>4 </WarningLevel>
          </PropertyGroup>
          <ItemGroup>




          ""Jialiang Ge [MSFT]"" wrote:
          Hello sippyuconn,
          >
          Are your 50 projects in one solution (sln)? If yes, I may have an easier
          way to build the projects in Release mode.
          >
          First, let's look at a sample sln file:
          >
          =============== =============== =============== ===
          Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00
          # Visual Studio 2008
          Project("{FAE04 EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ExcelWorkbook4 ",
          "ExcelWorkbook4 \ExcelWorkbook4 .csproj",
          "{63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}"
          EndProject
          Project("{FAE04 EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "ClassLibrary1" ,
          "ClassLibrary1\ ClassLibrary1.c sproj",
          "{98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}"
          EndProject
          Global
          GlobalSection(S olutionConfigur ationPlatforms) = preSolution
          Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
          Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
          EndGlobalSectio n
          GlobalSection(P rojectConfigura tionPlatforms) = postSolution
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Debug|Any CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any
          CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Debug|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any
          CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          EndGlobalSectio n
          GlobalSection(S olutionProperti es) = preSolution
          HideSolutionNod e = FALSE
          EndGlobalSectio n
          EndGlobal
          =============== =============== =============== ===
          >
          This sln will build its projects to Debug Mode. We can update the
          postSolution section to:
          >
          GlobalSection(P rojectConfigura tionPlatforms) = postSolution
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {63A08F02-7E57-40FB-A330-651A4078531B}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.D ebug|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.ActiveCfg =
          Release|Any CPU
          {98195D15-6E19-4798-9FF9-0A2D05F7CF2C}.R elease|Any CPU.Build.0 =
          Release|Any CPU
          EndGlobalSectio n
          >
          And build the solution (not the individual projects), to get the Release
          outputs.
          >
          Hope it helps.
          >
          Regards,
          Jialiang Ge (jialge@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
          Microsoft Online Community Support
          >
          Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
          suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
          feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
          provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
          msdnmg@microsof t.com.
          >
          =============== =============== =============== =====
          Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subs...#notifications.
          >
          Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues
          where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support
          Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow
          up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support
          professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
          most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
          that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
          project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
          handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
          Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
          http://support.microsoft.com/select/...tance&ln=en-us.
          =============== =============== =============== =====
          This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
          >
          >
          >

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            • Jialiang Ge [MSFT]
              #4
              RE: Set Project setting in Solution

              Hello Nick,

              I am writing to check the status of the issue on your side. Would you mind
              letting me know the result of the suggestions? Please let me know your
              concerns and I will do my best to find the workarounds for you.

              Have a great day!

              Regards,
              Jialiang Ge (jialge@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
              Microsoft Online Community Support

              =============== =============== =============== ====
              Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
              suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
              feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
              provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
              msdnmg@microsof t.com.

              This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
              =============== =============== =============== ====

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                • =?Utf-8?B?c2lwcHl1Y29ubg==?=
                  #5
                  RE: Set Project setting in Solution

                  Hi

                  Your suggestion did not address my issue

                  I was concerned about changing the Output path on each project(50)
                  If I have edited the Path for Debug and I want to have that Path for Release
                  - I need to edit 50 projects

                  I was going to write a script to go thru 50 .csproj file

                  Is there an easier way???
                  -macro ???
                  etc

                  Thanks


                  ""Jialiang Ge [MSFT]"" wrote:
                  Hello Nick,
                  >
                  I am writing to check the status of the issue on your side. Would you mind
                  letting me know the result of the suggestions? Please let me know your
                  concerns and I will do my best to find the workarounds for you.
                  >
                  Have a great day!
                  >
                  Regards,
                  Jialiang Ge (jialge@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
                  Microsoft Online Community Support
                  >
                  =============== =============== =============== ====
                  Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
                  suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
                  feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
                  provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
                  msdnmg@microsof t.com.
                  >
                  This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
                  =============== =============== =============== ====
                  >
                  >

                    Comment

                    • Jialiang Ge [MSFT]
                      #6
                      RE: Set Project setting in Solution

                      Hello

                      Please try this macro:

                      It enumerates all the projects in the solution and reset the output path of
                      the release build with
                      proj.Configurat ionManager.Item (2).Properties. Item("OutputPat h").Value =
                      outputPath

                      *************** *************** *************** *************** **
                      Public Sub ResetSolutionRe leaseOutput()
                      Dim project As Project
                      Dim projectObjects As EnvDTE.Projects

                      Dim outputPath = "bin\Test"
                      'get all the projects in the current solution
                      projectObjects = DTE.Solution.Pr ojects

                      For Each project In projectObjects
                      ResetOutputPath (project, outputPath)
                      Next

                      End Sub

                      Sub ResetOutputPath (ByVal proj As Project, ByVal outputPath As String)
                      If (proj.Kind = "{66A26720-8FB5-11D2-AA7E-00C04F688DDE}") Then
                      ' a folder
                      ' check the sub items
                      Dim projectItem As EnvDTE.ProjectI tem
                      For Each projectItem In proj.ProjectIte ms
                      If Not (projectItem.Su bProject Is Nothing) Then
                      ' Recurse, can be an Enterprise project in
                      ' Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 or a solution folder in
                      VS 2005
                      ResetOutputPath (projectItem.Su bProject, outputPath)
                      End If
                      Next
                      Else

                      proj.Configurat ionManager.Item (2).Properties. Item("OutputPat h").Value =
                      outputPath
                      End If
                      End Sub
                      *************** *************** *************** *************** **

                      Please let me know whether it works for you. If you have any other
                      questions or concerns, DON'T hesitate to tell me

                      Have a nice weekend!
                      Regards,
                      Jialiang Ge (jialge@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
                      Microsoft Online Community Support

                      =============== =============== =============== ====
                      Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
                      suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
                      feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
                      provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
                      msdnmg@microsof t.com.

                      This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
                      =============== =============== =============== ====

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