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MakePeaceGreatAgain
MakePeaceGreatAgain

Reputation: 37113

Change project-properties with IWizard

I created a template for a VS-project where I want to set some attributes provided by the user. So I implemented IWizard-interface:

public void RunStarted(object automationObject, Dictionary<string, string> replacementsDictionary, WizardRunKind runKind, object[] customParams)
{
    string projectPath = replacementsDictionary["$destinationdirectory$"];
    string projectName = replacementsDictionary["$projectname$"];

    SchemaWizardForm frm = new SchemaWizardForm(projectPath, projectName);
    frm.ShowDialog();
    this.m_assemblyInfo = frm.AssemblyInfo;

    replacementsDictionary["$assemblyTitle$"] = frm.AssemblyInfo.AssemblyName;
    replacementsDictionary["$assemblyName$"] = frm.AssemblyInfo.AssemblyName;
    replacementsDictionary["$copyrightYear$"] = DateTime.Now.Month + "/" + DateTime.Now.Year;
    replacementsDictionary["$defaultNamespace$"] = frm.AssemblyInfo.RootNamespace;
}

Now within my template´s project-file I have something like this:

<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">x86</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>8.0.30703</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>$defaultNamespace$</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>$assemblyName$</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v3.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment> 
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

And in AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("$assemblyTitle$")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("(C) $copyrightYear$ MyCompany")]
// ...

I can sucessfully create my project using the wizard. Its copyright-date from AssemblyInfo.cs after generation is [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("(C) 8/2016 MyCompany")] - which is fine. However the RootNamespace has a value similar to the projectsname. I already debugged the above code, where the replacementsDictionary dontains the correct entry for the namespace (see image below).

although the map has the correct values the result-project does not have those properties set appropriately

Here is the result-project

enter image description here

As you can see both the Assembly Name and the Default namespace contain the value from projectsname instead of what I entered in my user-form (asdas in my case). However the copyright-date accessable via the Assembly Information-button at Project-->Propertes-->Application is set correctly (not shown in the image).

Isn´t it possible to change the projects properties themeselfes using a replacementDictionary?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 324

Answers (1)

MakePeaceGreatAgain
MakePeaceGreatAgain

Reputation: 37113

Obviously we can´t change the project´s properties via such a dictionary. What we can do instead is to modify the projectname-entry within this map which solved the issue for me. Now Assembly title, Assembly name and Default namespace all refer to that same variable. It is a bit annoying (in particular that we can´t change the name of the assembly and the namespace independently) but this works for me.

replacementsDictionary["$projectname$"] = frm.AssemblyInfo.ProjectName;
replacementsDictionary["$safeprojectname$"] = frm.AssemblyInfo.ProjectName;

Upvotes: 0

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