Prototype VS project
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Greetings, This is not a new idea, but it is something I've finally implemented. I find that when I start up a new project there are a bunch of things that I want to do before I get started programming. I want to fix the "Untitled" bug, add tooltips, add a general purpose regular expression class (based on VBScript), add auto-incrementing versioning, add command-line parsing, add saving/restoring window placement information, etc., etc., aud nauseum. You know how that works. Nothing hard to do but it takes time and I always forget to do it or don't do them all. I have often thought that I should just setup a prototype project to use as a basis for all my future projects but the renaming chore is ghastly. I could setup some VS templates, but that looks like a daunting task in its own right. Then I discovered some free VS project renaming utilities. They've been around forever, I just didn't know how easy and reliable they are: http://adunk.ozehosting.com/software/RenameVSProject.html[^] and http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/vsrename.aspx[^] These are so easy, that now I have my prototype projects and I can cut about an hour getting started. Who knew? I wish I had done this years ago!