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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
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Update Project References Quickly #55
Chapter 6, Speed Hacks
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Dim projItem As ProjectItem
projItem = DTE.Solution.FindProjectItem("AssemblyInfo.cs")
projItem.Open(EnvDTE.Constants.vsViewKindTextView).Activate( )
'Update the Assembly file with the location here
Dim ts As TextSelection = DTE.ActiveWindow.Selection
ts.SelectAll( )
Dim strNewStrongNameLoc As String
strNewStrongNameLoc = "[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile(@" & _
Chr(34) & strsnkFileName & Chr(34) & ")]"
ts.ReplacePattern("[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("""")]", _
strNewStrongNameLoc)
End If
Catch err As System.Exception
MsgBox(err.Message)
End Try
End Sub
End Module
4. Save and close the macro
Before running the macro, be sure to compile the project whose assembly
you want to sign and make sure the project is selected in the Solution
Explorer. When you run the macro, it will first prompt you for the location
of your assembly. Then the macro will execute sn.exe for you, copy the .snk
file to your project, and then populate the
AssemblyKeyFile attribute for your
assembly.
Once you have used this macro, you won’t ever want to go back to manu-
ally signing assemblies again.
Thanks to Doug Doedens for writing this macro and posting at the C#
Corner, which is located at http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2002/July/
AddStrongNamesMacro.asp.
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Update Project References Quickly Hack #55
Use a macro to quickly update multiple references without ...
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