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Omer has been professionally developing applications over the past 8 years, both at the IDF’s IT corps and later at the Sela Technology Center, but has had the programming bug ever since he can remember himself.
As a senior developer at NuConomy, a leading web analytics and advertising startup, he leads a wide range of technologies for its flagship products.

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Copy/Paste References

A feature I find lacking in all versions of Visual Studio is the fact that there's no copy/paste support for references. You simply can't copy a reference from one project to the other.
Today I got somewhat fed up with that, so I decided to implement this feature on my own as an add-in. :)



Unfortunately, the add-in can not paste ActiveX or project references.

The add-in is available for both Visual Studio.NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 (simply unzip to your Addins directory).
I will, of course, appreciate as much feedback as possible and update the bits if necessary.

[Update: Weird, I must have missed this somehow. Oh, well.]
Posted: Apr 09 2006, 02:43 AM by Omer van Kloeten | with 9 comment(s)
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sergiotarrillo said:

Hi Omer, excelent!

It add-in allow copy/paste just in projects inside of a same solution, or also in multiple applications?

VS 2003 to VS 2005?

Saludos,
# April 11, 2006 1:37 PM

Omer van Kloeten said:

Copy/Paste is allowed between any applications (even between instances of VS2003 and VS2005).

There are two links in the post - one for the version for VS2003 and the other for VS2005.
# April 11, 2006 1:54 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 15, 2006 10:53 AM

Tony D said:

I installed the add-in for VS .NET 2003 but after opening a project and right clicking on a reference, I do not see an option to copy. I looked in my add-in manager and I do see "Omer van Kloeten's .NET Zen: Addins" with "Startup" checked.

Is there something else I need to do?

# March 23, 2007 8:01 AM

Omer van Kloeten said:

I honestly can't remember. It might have something to do with exporting the COM table... Sorry.

# March 23, 2007 11:56 AM

Andres Aguiar said:

Gaston's CoolComands already had it ;), in addition to a couple of other features I can't live without like 'Open Container Folder' and 'Collapse All projects'

http://weblogs.asp.net/gmilano

# March 23, 2007 3:05 PM

Vishnu said:

Copy the folder you want to have references, and paste in the same location. Then rename the new folder to the new project name you want to have. Make sure the Assembly name you created is the new one.

Another solution:

Get the PowerCommands for Visual Studio.

code.msdn.microsoft.com/.../ProjectReleases.aspx

It should have necessary features to copy paste the references.

# June 18, 2008 4:57 PM

Omer van Kloeten said:

Your suggestion would only work for a new project and I don't think I'll do it even then - seems a bit 'dirty'...

# June 18, 2008 5:45 PM

Copy/paste support for references in VS 2005/2003 | devintelligence.com said:

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# July 26, 2008 10:17 AM
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