Visual Studio Hacks

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 ...