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Alessandro Jacopson
Alessandro Jacopson

Reputation: 18655

Inheritance of project (.vcproj) properties in Visual Studio 2010

My IDE is Visual Studio 2010. I have a solution (.sln) containing more than 100 Projects (.vcproj). The language is C++. The solution has two configurations: "Release" and "Debug". The solution has two Platforms "Win32" and "x64". I need to create a third configuration, let's call it "Release_and_PDB". "Release_and_PDB" should be equal to "Release" except in that it should generate the PDB files. In the future "Release_and_PDB" should be always equal to "Release" except in that it should generate the PDB files. I think I can do it in three steps:

  1. Create a new Configuration.

  2. Manually change every project property adding the path and name for the PDB (in Linker, Debugging, Generate Program Database file).

  3. Ensure that a property change in the Release will also reflect the same change to the Release_and_PDB configuration

My questions:

a. Does Visual Studio have any facilities to get the step 2 done without the need of manually changing the properties of any (and every) project?

b. Does Visual Studio have any facilities for the inheritance of project properties to get step 3 done without the need to also manually change the property in Release_and_PDB?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 922

Answers (1)

Luchian Grigore
Luchian Grigore

Reputation: 258618

You go to configurations manager in the toolbar -> new -> copy settings from.

I think that's what you're looking for.

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Upvotes: 1

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