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POUpdating Visual Studio project references programatically
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copied!<p>I wish to programatically update the references in the projects in my Visual Studio solution.</p> <p>I have roughly 15 projects in my solution and when I am developing/debugging I want the references to point to the projects within the solution.</p> <p>As part of my release procedure I sometimes need to make a copy of one project and then update the references to point to built dlls in a certain folder.</p> <p>I can work out the structure of the project files and how references work within them and I am thinking of building a command line tool to parse the project files and change references as required.</p> <p>My questions are:<br> 1. Does this sound a sensible thing to do<br> 2. Has anyone experience of this and/or how do they handle switching between developing and release modes<br> 3. Does anyone have any libraries that deal with parsing Visual Studio project files.</p> <p>CLARIFICATION:</p> <p>Thanks for the responses. Perhaps I should clarify a few situations where I wish to use this.</p> <p>a) My application contain 15 projects. I try and keep the solution as small as possible for what I am working on, so say I have 5 projects in my solution. I now need to debug/develop one of the projects not in the solution so I add this project but I have to: - set the references in the original projects to point to project references rather than compiled dlls - change the references in the newly added project to point to the appropriate project references</p> <p>I would like my tool to do this automatically and the only way I know to so this at present is manipulating the project files</p> <p>b) As part of a service pack build procedure I take a copy of one of the projects, make the necessary code changes and build using Visual Studio. To do this I have to change all the references to the compiled dlls</p>

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