How do I tokenize a project template

Charles R Hankey — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:47:32 GMT

I'm having a lot of fun with templates. I have created a number of item templates and found that I can use the $safeitemrootname$ token where I want the name substituted when I name the item as I create a new one from the template.

Now I want to do substitutions in the project templates I am creating. Think of the multiproject solution like strataflix. I have a similar project, I have stripped it down to its non-app-specific components and saved each project as a template, so I have SFWindowsApp, SFWindowsApp.Base, SFWindowsApp.Business, SFWindowsApp.UI, SFWindowsApp.Reporting.

I have templates for each, but of course SFWindowsApp references other projects by name and when the templates are actually used those names will change.

Of course I can manually change the references in each project, and do a global search and replace to fix namespaces and a few places where references may include SFWindowsApp.

But I also think I could do some other stuff if I knew how to fiddle the XML files in the ZIP and I even think there is a way to do the other substiutions with a wizard. Has anybody been down this road?

And can I make one template of the projects so I have a solution template?

Guidance appreciated. I'm sure a lot of other SF developers are like me and rather than spend all their time writing a supporting one big app they find themselves writing a lot of difference apps and any step toward RAD really pays off.

TIA

Charles

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