PaulieT 
Hi Group,
Say you created a project and saved it.
Then you make changes to the project.
How do you save the project (Solution) under a different name?
You can Save As a "C" file, just not the whole solution.
You could start a New Project and copy in the main program file but that's a lot of work and prone to error.
Thanks for your help,
Paul
awneil 
You can rename the solution & project(s) in the Solution Explorer - it's in the right-click menu.
clawson 
Sorry, I could not let it go.
PaulieT Hi,
Well, that does some of the job.
The project folder name and path also need to be changed.
You can easily change the folder name, but the path will be broken.
You can see the path to the Solution File by looking at the Properties of the project, but you can't change the path.
If you edit the .atsln file (which is an .xml file) and change the folder name and path it works, but it's a lot of effort to do all this and prone to errors.
I'm a old hardware engineer that writes software, maybe everybody works differently than I do!
I just think it seems strange that there is no easy way to do this.
Thanks everyone for your input.
Paul
clawson
You can easily change the folder name, but the path will be broken.
Not entirely sure I follow your point. I just picked a project and used right click to change both the solution and the project names:
and this still builds exactly as it did before.
PaulieT Yes, you are correct Clawson, they rename fine and still build as they did before.
However, the renamed project is still in the folder with the original name.
In many cases this may be alright.
The problem is, I started with an example project using the default name and built from there.
The folder name is still the example project name.
Note to self!
Use the desired name in the beginning!
Regards,
Paul
clawson
However, the renamed project is still in the folder with the original name.
In Visual Studio I personally use "filters" a lot to group connected files even though their actual locations may be all over the place.
In your case you are probably right - abandon what you have, first create a directory structure you like then create a new (correctly named) solution/project and import the files into ("add existing...")
PS looking at AS7 it's kind of annoying that it has:
but not:
which is the equivalent in Visual Studio - filters ("virtual groups") are far more useful than real folders to my mind !
awneil The project folder name and path also need to be changed.
No, they shouldn't.
All the paths in the project should be relative.
So you just pick up the top-level folder of the original Solution, and copy it to its new location.
Then open the Solution in its new location, and do the renames of Solution & Project(s).
That's all I do.
clawson All the paths in the project should be relative.
PaulieT Sorry, I wrote the title of this post is incorrectly.
I don't want to just Rename the Project, I want to save the Project as something new.
This way the Original Project and the New Project could co-exist.
The way "Save As" works in other programs.
Paul
awneil Yes - that's exactly what I was talking about.
It works for me as I described.
PaulieT Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.
Have a great day,
Paul
clawson PaulieT Actually I never tried exporting a project as a template.
Looks like it might work.
I'm going to give it a try.
Thanks,
Paul
clawson This is what I was suggesting in #3 ;-)
(sorry if it was not clear - posts from mobile phone tend to be "terse" !)
