Hi, I''ve created myself a sort of ''project template'', with all the settings that I''m going to be using to write a whole load of programs - things like all the DirectX libraries listed, with the appropriate paths to header and library files, plus a basic .cpp file containing a template WinMain and WndProc and stuff like that. I don''t want to have to rewrite all this every time I start a new project, especially including all the DirectX libraries because it''s an absolute hassle trying to remember which ones are needed. So, is there any easy way to create a new project that contains all the stuff from this project, only under a different name? The ''easy'' way of copying the folder, renaming everything to the new project name, and then fiddling with it to make sure all the names are updated, works until the fiddling bit when it appears to be impossible to actually rename the project within Visual Studio, and a few other settings appear to be unchangeable too. Surely there has to be an easy way to do this? Like, "Create a new project based on project..."? Anybody?

File->New->Projects->Custom Appwizard.

But be prepared to spend quite a bit of time updating/modifying your files and reading the help about it, because it''s not that trivial.

Just looking this up myself actually.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_core_overview_of_creating_a_custom_appwizard.asp


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Have you considered using DirectX Appwizard... It will make a decent basic framework app for you.