This question has popped up in different, but related, forms. There is actually an MSDN page that covers this. What you’re looking for is a multi-solution approach akin to the Partitioned Single Solution Model for Larger Systems. Have one “everything” solution that builds everything and maintains your inter-component dependencies. This is what you build when … Read more
I’d suggest you take a look at Spring’s Project Sagan. It’s the source code for their current website (http://spring.io). While they used a multi-module approach, it wasn’t divided as you are suggesting. They really just pulled out some client work and kept the rest in a single module. This site was written by the Spring … Read more
Nice Wiki. I’m starting a new project, and this is structure i have begun with. It follows the Microsoft Best Practices (Business, Data, Services, Presentation). In my solution: Business: domain/project-specific logic, and most notably POCO’s. Data: repositories. self explanatory. Services: logic on top of repositories. i can add caching here, filtering, etc. My UI communicates … Read more
Here’s what you need to do: Right click on the DAL Project in the solution explorer and select Project dependencies in the context menu. You will now see a window that shows the project dependencies of the DAL Project. Make sure that BAL isn’t checked. Now you should be able to add your reference… I … Read more
We also converted existing libraries to portable libraries and it works fine. You have to modify the project file. Replace the following line: <Import Project=”…” /> with <Import Project=”$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\Portable\$(TargetFrameworkVersion)\Microsoft.Portable.CSharp.targets” /> Add following line inside a PropertyGroup tag <ProjectTypeGuids>{786C830F-07A1-408B-BD7F-6EE04809D6DB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids> And remove following lines from the AssemblyInfo.cs file [assembly: ComVisible(false)] [assembly: Guid(“…”)] After that, Visual Studio should … Read more
Here’s a PowerShell script that retrieves project details from a .sln file: Get-Content ‘Foo.sln’ | Select-String ‘Project\(‘ | ForEach-Object { $projectParts = $_ -Split ‘[,=]’ | ForEach-Object { $_.Trim(‘[ “{}]’) }; New-Object PSObject -Property @{ Name = $projectParts[1]; File = $projectParts[2]; Guid = $projectParts[3] } }
Open the PerformanceExplorer in Visual Studio by using the Menu Analyze -> Windows -> PerformanceExplorer and check if it lists any session entries. If so delete them by doing a right-click on an entry to open the ContextMenu. Then select “Remove” from the menu. You should also check the folder of your solution if it … Read more
For copying a files to the output directory in Visual Studio 2003 you could use Post-Build event: Right click on the project->Properties Common Properties->Build Events Set Post-Build Event Command Line to: xcopy /y $(ProjectDir)my_file.ini $(ProjectDir)$(OutDir) OK and build!
There is a feedback Request already placed at Connect.Microsoft.com so, you will have to wait for the permanent solution. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/468874/solution-explorer-project-sort-order (replaced with Wayback Machine link as original was removed) Temporary workarounds are available but not good enough I feel. One of them is: Press F2 to rename a project, then press Enter without changing the … Read more
It seems reasonable that the solution Gavin Pugh gave would fix the problem, though I didn’t try it. I too ran into this problem after uninstalling the Developer Preview of VS11. I think I know what is really wrong though. Mladen Jankovic was on the right track. One of the follow two (necessary) registry keys … Read more