how to set all projects in solution to copy local false

Question

is there a quick way to mark all the solution projects references as Copy local false? is there some tool that does that? it's pretty messy to mark about 200 projects manually

Answer 1

You could use xsl to transform the project file to add False (this is what copy local false does)

Here's an example xslt file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:cs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"
exclude-result-prefixes="cs"> 

    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="*"> 
    <xsl:copy> 
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|*|text()|node()"/> 
    </xsl:copy> 
    </xsl:template> 

    <xsl:template match="cs:Project/cs:ItemGroup/cs:Reference"> 
        <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
          <xsl:if test="not(./cs:Private)">
            <Private>False</Private>
          </xsl:if>

    </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template> 

    <xsl:template match="@*| text() | node()"> 
        <xsl:copy>
             <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>     
</xsl:stylesheet>