It would be very helpful to have a new context menu feature “Clone Project” when I right click a VisualGDB project within a solution.

This would:

• Get the desired name for the new project.
• Get the desired folder location for the new project.
• Identify all project related files that refer to the project name.
• Create copies of all files in the project, renaming those whose name contains the project name.
• Create modified copies of all files that refer to the project (e.g. the .vcxproj file contains the names of various .vgdbsettings XML entries that begin with project name).
• Ask if the project should be added to the existing solution.

The motivation for this is that I spent a couple of days getting a working example of some DAC/DMA code working. Now that it’s working I want to simply “freeze” this as an example and create a clone that I can use to create a derived version, that too might eventually serve as a basis for another copy.

I did this manually yesterday and It was tedious and took several attempts before I got it all done.

Please let me know if this sounds plausible as a possible new feature?

Thanks