Я работаю с решением Visual Studio 2005 C ++, которое включает в себя несколько проектов (около 30). Исходя из моего опыта, часто становится раздражающим поддерживать все свойства проектов (например, включать путь, путь к lib, связанные библиотеки, параметры генерации кода, ...), так как вам часто приходится нажимать на каждый проект, чтобы изменить их. Ситуация становится еще хуже, когда у вас несколько конфигураций (Debug, Release, Release 64 bit, ...).

Примеры из реальной жизни:

Assume you want to use a new library, and you need to add the include path to this library to all projects. How will you avoid to have to edit the properties of each an every project? Assume you want to test drive a new version of library (say version 2.1beta) so that you need to quickly change the include paths / library path / linked library for a set of projects?

Заметки:

I am aware that it is possible to select multiple projects at a time, then make a right click and select "properties". However this method only works for properties that were already exactly identical for the different projects : you can not use it in order to add an include path to a set of project that were using different include path. I also know that it is possible to modify globally the environment options (Tools/Options/Project And solutions/Directories), however it is not that satisfying since it can not be integrated into a SCM I also know that one can add "Configurations" to a solutions. It does not helps since it makes another set of project properties to maintain I know that codegear C++ Builder 2009 offers a viable answer to this need through so called "Option sets" which can be inherited by several projects (I use both Visual Studio and C++ Builder, and I still thinks C++ Builder rocks on certain aspects as compared to Visual Studio) I expect that someone will suggest an "autconf" such as CMake, however is it possible to import vcproj files into such a tool?