Hi! I often face the problem of synchronizing Visual Studio (both 2003 and 2005 versions) projects with NAnt. I usually build with NAnt but want to provide Visual Studio build files for my users. The problem is that I tend to forget to update all the projects (*.csproj) with the newly files or to remove the files that are no longer in my source directory.
I wrote a small task for NAnt, called "sync-vs-project-items" that takes care of all the synchronization necessary. It adds/removes files in VS Project until they are in sync with the directory. I'm currently hosting this task in the NLog Project's repository, but if there's any interest I can make a separate release. Feel free to include it in NAntContrib, if you like. The license is BSD. Grab the source code at: http://svn.nlog-project.org/repos/nlog/trunk/NLog/tools/SyncVSProjectItems.cs As you can see below, a single execution of the task lets you update all matching project files. Usage: <!-- compile NAnt task --> <csc target="library" output="build/SyncVSProjectItems.dll"> <sources basedir="tools"> <include name="SyncVSProjectItems.cs" /> </sources> <references> <include name="${nant::get-base-directory()}/NAnt.Core.dll" /> </references> </csc> <!-- load newly compiled NAnt task --> <loadtasks assembly="build/SyncVSProjectItems.dll" /> <!-- synchronize NLog.csproj, NLog-net-2.0.csproj and NLog.csdproj --> <sync-vs-project-items> <project-files basedir="src/NLog"> <include name="*.csproj" /> <include name="*.csdproj" /> </project-files> <source-files basedir="src/NLog"> <include name="**/*.cs" /> </source-files> </sync-vs-project-items> <!-- synchronize NLog-net-2.0.csproj, NLog.ComInterop-net-2.0.csproj--> <sync-vs-project-items> <project-files basedir="src/NLog.ComInterop"> <include name="*.csproj" /> <include name="*.csdproj" /> </project-files> <source-files basedir="src/NLog.ComInterop"> <include name="**/*.cs" /> </source-files> </sync-vs-project-items> The task seems to support C#/VB projects in Visual Studio 2003/2005, but should also support VS.NET 2002 (unchecked). If you find any bugs, report them to me or to the NLog mailing list: http://www.nlog-project.org/mailinglists.html -- Jarek Kowalski http://blog.jkowalski.net http://www.nlog-project.org/ - A .NET Logging Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ NAnt-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
