Is there a way to have multi-project templates rename a few of the projects names?
I tried $safeprojectname$ and it didnt do anything, even with
replaceparameters = true.
Is there a way around this ? A hack or addin way of changing the names?
Thanks you,
Corby Nichols
Houston, TX
Unfortunately, we do not have a way of renaming projects when rendering multi-project templates. The best thing that you can do is to create a wizard extension that captures the appropriate callbacks and rename the project at that time.
Craig
Thank you for replying, what I will probably do for the short term is name the other projects to more generic names, so they get installed as is, and if someone wants to they can rename them to whatever they choose.
As for that call back mechanism you mentioned, I am not going to try it because I am kind of swamped right now, but if I ever got ambitions, in the article listed below in the section "Extending the wizard", it describes executing a method call to a .dll before opening a file. Could you write some routines that go into the .vstemplate files in the zip files, replaces the project name parameters where needed, save the file, then zip up the files on the fly?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CodeTemplates/default.aspx
I dont want to attempt it if you think it is impossible, but I would prefer to have the templates names as (ProjectName) Data Access Library, or (ProjectName) ApplicationLogicComponet, rather then a generic name.
Thank you,
Corby Nichols
Flying Elephant Software
Houston, TX
