I've been looking for a while for a tool that will take a bunch of solutions and combine them into one large solution, while preserving dependencies between projects. Does such a tool exist for Visual Studio 2010?
The situation is I have a bunch of separate solution files for a very large product. I would like operations like "Find All References" to work but it doesn't search across solutions. I would like to create a "master solution" with all the projects, in addition to all the smaller solutions. I don't want to create it manually because there are many solutions and even more projects.
Thanks, -Jim
According to the configurations Microsoft Visual Studio has, I think it's not possible. Because in each solution you might have one or more startup projects, a specialized Configuration Manager, Solution Folders and many other settings that depends on your solution file.
One of the policies I always use is to not have many many projects to lost between them. I strongly recommend you to combine your projects, see what's happening and group them into a few large projects, instead of having many little projects. Also I'd suggest you to use TFS, it's a great server for team management and such a things you're looking for.
Cheers