Find All (CTRL+SHIFT+F) “Find what:” = Reference.*ReplaceThisTextWithProjectName Check “Use:” -> “Regular Expression” in the “Find options” section “Look at these file types:” = “*.*proj* ” “Look in:” = Select a directory/folder on your drive. Don’t use “Entire Solution” it won’t get to the project file itself. (Don’t forget to check “Include sub-folders”)
CMake now supports this with versions 3.6 and higher through the VS_STARTUP_PROJECT directory property: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6) project(foo) # … add_executable(bar ${BAR_SOURCES}) set_property(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} PROPERTY VS_STARTUP_PROJECT bar) This will set bar as the startup project for the foo.sln solution.
I find some missing information in the other answers (at least for people who come from other IDEs like, say, Eclipse) . To say that a solution is a container for projects is only part of the thing. The conceptual feature of a VS project (what determines its ‘granularity’) is that one project produces one … Read more