sln-tools - CLI helper for Visual Studio .sln & .csproj files

Introduction

Support the following operations

usage: sln-tools COMMAND [OPTIONS]+
        switch               switch dll reference to project reference in a
                               solution
        merge                merge solution files to a single solution
        remove-imports       remove imports from project files
        remove-projects      remove projects from solution files

switch - Switch DLL reference to project references

A lot of large legacy codebase use DLL reference for hundreds of projects to a single Assembly/Artifacts folder, without a single .sln file to contain or group these projects.
switch command will replace DLL reference with project reference.

• Support replacing .csproj inside solutions
• Support glob-matched projects outside solutions and automatically add them to .sln files.
• Automatically resolve GUID conflicts. This is handy because a lot of developers just copy paste these .csproj files, not knowing VS Solution can not load projects with duplicate GUID

sln-tools switch --help
  -s, --solution=VALUE       the path to solution file.
  -p, --pattern=VALUE        the path to project files
  -i, --in                   include only projects inside source solution file
  -w, --write                overwrite project file(s)
  -h, --help                 show options

merge - Merge multiple solution files to a single solution

There’s a CLI tool (slntools) that handles merging solution files, but in a way that is not helpful to me. So merge command will add projects in child .sln files to a single .sln parent.

• Support merging multiple .sln files using glob-pattern
• Automatically resolve csproj duplicates, GUID conflicts.

sln-tools merge --help
  -s, --source=VALUE         the glob pattern to match solution files
  -t, --target=VALUE         the target solution file
  -f, --add-folder           add relative solution folder
  -g, --add-same-guid        add projects with same guid by creating new guid
  -w, --write                overwrite project file(s)
  -h, --help                 show options

remove-imports - Remove a specific import statement inside .csproj files matching a glob pattern

This can be useful when you want to remove an erroneous import statement in legacy codebase. MSBuild tool is simply unable to load .csproj with erroneous import statements.

sln-tools remove-imports --help
  -f, --files=VALUE          the glob pattern for project files.
  -p, --pattern=VALUE        the regex pattern for import statement
  -w, --write                overwrite project file(s)
  -h, --help                 show options

remove-proj - Remove regex-matched projects in solution files

Useful when you are tired of removing hundreds of, say UnitTest projects, from solution files.

sln-tools remove-projects --help
  -s, --solution=VALUE       the path to solution files.
  -p, --pattern=VALUE        the regex pattern for project name
  -t, --target=VALUE         the target solution file to write to
  -h, --help                 show options