Fixproj performs various cleanups and other operations on Visual Studio .csproj files, mostly to reduce merge conflicts.
Because fixproj is a command-line utility you can run it with psake, as part of a pre-commit git hook, whenever you feel like it, etc.
- Removes duplicate items.
- Normalizes the case of the items to the case of the corresponding files on disk.
- Adds references to content on disk such as C# files, embedded resources, etc.
- Removes references to missing files
- Sorts properties
- Sorts nodes that have an
Includeattribute such asCompile,Reference, andEmbeddedResourcenodes. - And more!
fixproj [options] -t directory-m filemask
Options include
-add, -ac, -a Add references to C# files that exist on disk
-backup, -b Create a backup. Yes, .BAK is back!
-content, -act Add references to content files that exist on disk
-dedupe, -dd Deduplicate nodes that have the
same value for the Include attribute
-delete, -d Delete references to files that don't exist
-embed, -ae Add references to embedded resources that exist on disk
-fixcontent, -fix Fixes content nodes so they don't copy,
copy if newer, etc. correctly based on type
-mask, -m Project search mask
-preview, -p Preview the changes that would
be made without making them
-recursive, -r Search the target directory recursively
for project files that match the mask
-sort, -s Sort nodes by Include attribute
-target, -t Directory containing the project file, or
the root directory to search when recursive
-verbose, -v Verbose output
Sort all the nodes of all the .csproj files of all the projects in the Source directory.
fixproj -r -s -v -t Source -m *.csproj
Preview the results if you were to perform various content fixups of the nodes in a web project, delete duplicates and delete references to non-existent files.
fixproj -v -dd -d -p -t Source\Web -m Web.csproj
- Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022