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Project Linker

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This tool helps to automatically create and maintain links from a source project to a target project to share code that is common to Silverlight and WPF. Therefore, shared code can be written once and built for the target environment.

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Visual Studio
2010
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7/1/2010
2.2.0.0
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by Radu Grama | January 25 2012

by NTDeveloper | July 31 2010

I LOVE this brilliant tool; so simple yet effective. Anyone who has tried to share source between projects knows what an absolute pain linked files are to manage. This tool completely solves the maintenance headache that using linked files introduces. Although the developers of the tool specifically highlight the use case of sharing common code between Silverlight and WPF applications, it is not limited to this specific scenario and can be used whenever you want to share code between projects. Moreover, this approach is considerably cleaner than the RIA services approach where shared files have to be named *.shared.* and the code is copied. Job well done!

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    Creating links to already existing files?
    1 Posts | Last Post May 07, 2012
    • Written May 07, 2012 
      The tool seems to be creating links only for the files that are added to the source project after the projects have been linked.
Is there any way to force it to create the links for all the files that already exist in the source project?
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    Visual Studio 11 support
    2 Posts | Last Post March 31, 2012
    • Written October 21, 2011 
      The current version does not seem to support Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. Is there any workaround for this, or a new version coming soon? I use this a lot. It just saves me a lot of time. Thanks.
    • Written March 31, 2012 
      This worked for me:
1. Downloaded the vsix. 
2. Extracted the contents with 7-Zip.
3. Modified extension.vsixmanifest to add <VisualStudio Version="11.0"> to the <SupportedProducts> node.
4. Changed MaxVersion to <SupportedFrameworkRuntimeEdition MinVersion="3.5" MaxVersion="4.5" />(not sure if this is necessary)
5. Zipped up contents.
6. Renamed extension back to vsix.
7. Installed extension.
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    How do I use it?
    2 Posts | Last Post November 23, 2010
    • Written November 23, 2010 
      A brief intro on how to use this tool would be nice.  I am not sure I even get what it really does, but an intro would help me understand that.
    • Written November 23, 2010 
      There in an intro here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648745.aspx