Visual Studio Copy Project

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I would like to make a copy of my project  I would rather not start doing it from scratch by adding files and references  etc  Please note that I don t mean copy for deployment  Just plain copy   Is there a tool in VS to do this  I am using VS 2008

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I guess if this is something you do often, there's a little (non-free) utility that promises to do it for you: I haven't used it, so not sure how good it is:

http://www.kinook.com/CopyWiz/

There is also this project on CodePlex:

http://clone.codeplex.com/

I will probably give the codeplex project a try, and if it doesn't work I'll manually rename everything and edit the sln file.

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The easiest way to do this would be to export the project as a template and save it to the default template location  Then  copy the template into the exact same directory on the location you want to move it to  After that  open up visual studio on the new location  create a new project  and you will get a prompt to search for a template  Search for whatever you named the template  select it and you re done

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I have a project where the source files are in in a folder below the project folder  When I copied the project folder without the source folder and opened the copied project  the source files are not missing but found at the old location  I closed the project  copied also the source folder  and re-opened the project  Now  the project magically references the copied source files  both the new path showed up on  save as  and a change in a file has been saved in the copied version    There is a caveat  If not both old and new project folders are below a used library folder  the above-mentioned magic discards also the absolute reference to the library and expects it under the same relative path   I tried this with VS Express 2012

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I follow these steps and I use the development tool called Resharper  which is awesome by the way   So    Copy the existing project folder to the destination you want Go to source control and with right click just to the root folder you want and pick  Add items to folder     Then  a wizard will come up to choose the files to copy  there is no need for some files and the wizard guides you for that reason by default   Change the name of the solution file    sln  Change the names of the sub-projects if exist  Use Resharper to change the binding namespaces name  I will automatic do the dirty job with safety  The alternative way is to manually change all namespaces with the new name  The same action with method names  Check solution s properties if you want to change    That s it  You are ready

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Just create a template  From your project choose  Project - Export Template The wizard will let you define  Template name Template Description Icon Preview image  Then  it zips up your project into   My Exported Templates  directory  You also have the  option to  make  your template available  when you create a new project  When you use your template to create a new project  the namespace will be correct for  your new project name  throughout every file  all references correct  everything perfecto    You can send the  zip file to anybody  and they must copy  not unzip  the  zip file into Templates ProjectTemplates directory for them to use too  I made an ASP NET MVC template with folders  layout page  viewmodels etc arranged just how I like them  NOTE  If you have an empty folder in your project  it WON T be added to the template  so I just added an empty class appropriate to each folder  and a sample  picture for images folder

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I use Visual Studio 2013 where Project   Export Template is not an option   Here is what I use to clone a project     From your solution   File   Export Template   select project to make template from  note save path  Download and install VS 2013 SDK Here  Create new VSIX project under Extensibility  From the VSIXManifest Dialog select the Assets tab  Fill in the Author textbox  Choose  Project Template  for Type and Browse to add the exported template  saved at path you noted in step 1   Save and build the VSIX project   Go to the VSIX project s     bin Debug folder and double click to run the  vsix file  Start new instance of Visual Studio and you should see your template under whatever project type your template is  Create a new project from your template  You will have to re-add any dll references

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It is highly NOT ADVISABLE to copy projects at all because the some config files formed internally like  csproj   vspscc etc  may  and most probably will  point to references which belong to previous solutions  location and other paths locations in system or TFS  Unless you are an expert at reading these files and fixing references  do not try to copy projects    You can create a skeletal project of the same type you intend to copy  this creates a proper  csproj   vspscc files  Now you are free to copy the class files scripts and other content from the previous project as they will not impact  This will ensure a smooth build and version control  should you choose to be interested in that   Having said all this  let me give you the method to copy project anyhow in a step-wise manner    Go to the project you want to copy in solution explorer and right-click  Now select  Open Folder in File Explorer   Assuming you have the solution mapped to a local path on your disk   Select the Projects you want to replicate as whole folders along with all dependencies bin  vspscc file   csproj file  Paste them in your desired location  it could be your same solution folder or even another solution folder  If it is within the same solution folder  then you would be required to rename it  also the  csproj and other internal files to the new name   No go back to Visual Studio  Right-Click on Solution   Add   Existing Project       Browse and select the Project file   csproj file  now from the location you placed it in and select  open  This file now appears in the solution explorer for you to work    You may now have to resolve a few build errors probably with duplicated missing references and stuff but otherwise it s as pristine in logic and structure as you expected it to be

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If you want a copy  the fastest way of doing this would be to save the project   Then make a copy of the entire thing on the File System   Go back into Visual Studio and open the copy   From there  I would most likely recommend re-naming the project solution so that you don t have two of the same name  but that is the fastest way to make a copy

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Following Shane s answer above  which works great BTW     You might encounter a slew of yellow triangles in the reference list  Most of these can be eliminated by a Build- gt Clean Solution and Build- gt Rebuild Solution  I did happen to have some Google API references that were a little more stubborn   as well as NewtonSoft JSon   Trying to reinstall the NuGet package of the same version didn t work  Visual Studio thinks you already have it installed   To get around this  1  Write down the original version  2  Install the next higher lower version   then uninstall it  3  Install the original version from step  1

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The best way is actually to create a new Project from scratch  then go into the folder with the project files you want to copy over  project  form1  everything except folders   Rename the files  Except for form1 files  for example  I copied Ch4Ex1 files into my Ch4Ex2 project but first renamed the files to Ch4Ex2  Copy and paste those files into the Solution Explorer for the new project in Visual Studio  Then just overwrite the files and you should be good to go   Old thread but I hope it helps anyone looking for this answer

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After trying above solutions  amp  creating copy for MVC projects   For MVC projects please update the port numbers in  csproj file  you can take help of iis applicationhost config to check the port numbers  Same port numbers will cause assembly loading issue in IIS

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My solution is a little bit different - the computer that the package resided on died and so I was forced to recreate it on another computer    What I did  in VS 2008  was to open the following files in my directory                     -  lt package name gt  djproj                   -  lt package name gt  dtproj user                   -  lt package name gt  dtxs                   -  lt package name gt  sln                   - Package dtsx   When I did this a popup window asked me if the sln file was going to be a new solution and when I clicked  yes  everything worked perfectly

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