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François Beaune
François Beaune

Reputation: 4500

Setting debugging parameters on multiple projects in VS 2019

In Visual Studio 2019, it appears no longer possible to set the command, command arguments and working directory of multiple projects simultaneously. As soon as multiple projects are selected, the Debugging category disappears:

Single project selected:

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Multiple (executable) projects selected:

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(Notice that the Debugging category in the left pane is gone.)

Is there a less tedious way than manually setting those on all individual (executable) projects?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 519

Answers (1)

Jeaninez - MSFT
Jeaninez - MSFT

Reputation: 4017

As far as I'm concerned, It is not possible to set commands, command parameters and working directories for multiple projects at the same time in the property page.

I suggest you could try to use customize your build.

you can add a new property to every project in one step by defining it in a single file called Directory.Build.props in the root folder that contains your source. When MSBuild runs, Microsoft.Common.props searches your directory structure for the Directory.Build.props file (and Microsoft.Common.targets looks for Directory.Build.targets). If it finds one, it imports the property. Directory.Build.props is a user-defined file that provides customizations to projects under a directory.

For more details I suggest you could refer to the link:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/msbuild/customize-your-build?view=vs-2019

Upvotes: 1

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