Feature Request – Batch VGDB Project Properties

[saspland]

Hi,

The Solution I work on has 25 Projects used to build the application, for Linux x86, and another 25 for Linux on ARM.
At the moment changing the configuration of the build chain, project defines etc. is not fun…

Would it be possible to select multiple projects in the Solution tab of VS, right click and get a “VGDB Project Properties” option?

I’m not expecting to be able to do everything you can do in the individual settings in this dialog, but the settings which are likely to be the same across multiple projects in the same solution should be available to be changed.

Primarily, “Project Settings -> Remote Machine” and all of “Makefile Settings” would be really useful.

Thanks,
Simon Aspland.

[support]

Hi,

Unfortunately this is not possible with the current model. VisualGDB tries to simplify editing the settings, so it relies a lot on the ‘current project’ concept when displaying the properties (e.g. substitutes variables). To support editing multiple projects at once, we would have to add a completely different mechanism of editing them, and that is currently a too big investment for us.

You could try referencing environment variables from your projects using the $(VarName) syntax. Alternatively you can make a mini-tool for editing the properties you want. VisualGDB stores its properties in XML files with .vgdbsettings extension. Those files contain XMLSerializer-generated objects from the VisualGDB.exe assembly, so you could easily automate changing them. Let us know if you want some code examples.

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