Converting items in Visual Studio project from "links" to copied files

Question

Hi,

I have a Visual Studio (2008) project where I have some files added as links (through Add Existing Item->Add As Link). Suppose I want to copy this project somewhere else (give it to another developer, release source code, etc.) and I would like to "convert" all these links to actual copies of these files. Is this possible? How can I do this in VS or is there some 3rd party utility to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would guess that the easiest approach is simply to remove the items from your project and then add them again, but not as links? If you want to keep the files as links in your project, make the copy first and then remove/add the items in the copy.

Answer 2

if all your files are under a single root (and not c:\...) and relative you can try use TreeTrim.

treetrim.console c:\ -workingcopy -zip:writeTo:c:\out.zip

this will create a zip will all the need info without the temporary files (.pdb, .ncb)

Answer 3

I met this exactly problem, and wrote a little tool to do this. Checkout: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnblogs.com%2Fdeerchao%2Farchive%2F2010%2F04%2F22%2F1718183.html&sl=zh-CN&tl=en