MFC- Create a copy of an existing project

[robcat2075]

When following a tutorial that teaches by making incremental additions to an previous project or when developing your own program in an incremental way, you may wish to leave an existing project as it is and proceed to work on a copy.

Lets say I have project in my Visual Studio Solution named Wash002 and that I wish to preserve it as is and proceed with a copy of it.

 

On your hard drive , find the folder that contains it. Copy the folder and paste it into the same directory.

 

Rename the copied folder. I will name mine Wash003.

In a program such as Notepad++  do Search> Find in Files...

 

Use it to replace all text instances of "Wash002" with "Wash003"

 

Do the same to replace the ALL CAPS version of the project name...

 

Next use a utility like Power Rename (found in free MS Power Toys) to change all filenames in folder Wash003 that have a "Wash002" in their name to "Wash003"

 

Next in Visual Studio, in the Solution Explorer, on your Solution title>Add>Existing Project...

 

Navigate to your new project folder, open it and choose the .vcxproj file...

 

In Visual Studio do File>Save All to make the newly added project saved in your Solution.

 

 

I think this will work.

 

@Rodney

@Roger