Introduction
- Are you creating an application based on some open source project template?
- Are you looking for a way to update underlying project template at the same time your working on your application without any extra efforts?
- Are you going to publish your project templates so that others developers could build their applications based on your template?
If any of these applies to you then
Solution Update Vistual Studio Add-in is most likely what you need.
Questions & Answers
Q:
Why do I need Solution Update if there is a NuGet tool?A:
NuGet allows you to update separate packages of your project and "Solution Update" allows you update the whole solution at one go.
Q:
I don't want Solution Update to alter my application during update process. Should I worry about it?A: No, you shouldn't. It will keep all your customizations intact (including but not limited to: project name, custom namespace, project settings/preferences etc.)
Q:
I want to publish a project template which has a few brunches / flavors. Will end users be able to customize it before downloading and later on keep it up to date with a glance of their project preferences?A: This is one of the coolest features of
Solution Update tool. With it you can for example publish a project which allows end users to specify which ORM tool their project should be using, which logging library, which asp.net view engine etc. Then after they click "Update Solution" button they will get customized project template in accordance with their preferences.
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