Cheers

Scott

// IWizard Class

private static Dictionary Replacements = null;

public void RunStarted(object automationObject,
Dictionary replacementsDictionary,
WizardRunKind runKind,
object[] customParams)
{
if ( _replacementDictionary != null )
{
foreach (var keyValuePair in _replacementDictionary)
{
replacementsDictionary[keyValuePair.Key] = keyValuePair.Value;
}
return;
}

// show dialog and get results
}

I’d say your way is a more flexible framework, but my two project templates depended on way too many same variables that I just decided to do it this way.

Unfortunately you do have to watch out though because some of the project specific variables like $guid#$ get copied over too, but I didnt have a problem with since it was only 2 projects in the solution

Thanks again for awesome post

When I start the project using F5 debugging I just get a message saying “The sidebar.exe process was not found”

i am running Visual Studio as an admin in Windows 7 64Bit. The SideBar.exe process does show up in Task Manager.

At first I thought this was a pretty silly behaviour – the parent scope not affecting the children scopes – but your suggested pattern (more than a workaround in my opinion) makes a lot of sense, since it models the hierarchy in the multi-project template and gives full control for every single project generation in it.

Nice work!