Issues with replacements

[sayedihashimi]

I looked into why your project wasn't building. The issues is lines 6 and 7 _preprocess.xml which contains the following.

    <add key="RootNamespace" value="$companynamespace$.$safeprojectname$"/>
    <add key="AssemblyName" value="$companynamespace$.$safeprojectname$"/>

When the replacements are processed the .csproj file ends up having the following.

<$companynamespace$.$safeprojectname$>$safeprojectname$</$companynamespace$.$safeprojectname$>

You can perform replacements on the .csproj file but it those replacements should not cause the file to be invalid XML or invalid MSBuild.

I don't understand what is the purpose of the two replacements here. I searched through the ConsoleApp project and for both RootNamespace and AssemblyName the only usage was the element in the .csproj file.

[tlogik]

ahh of course... it is the value of the RootNameSpace that should be changed, not the tag itself.
That means that for this i only need to remove the *.csproj from the exclude list, because then it will update the root namespace and assembly name.
like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Preprocess>
  <TemplateInfo Path="CSharp\Infomedia"/>
  <Replacements Include="*.*" Exclude="*.vstemplate;*.jpg;*.png;*.ico;_preprocess.xml;_project.vstemplate.xml">
    <add key="ConsoleApp" value="NamespacePrefix.$safeprojectname$"/>
  </Replacements>
</Preprocess> 

[LogikBlitz]

And i am closing this. Thanks for your help and time @sayedihashimi
Ill write up a guide with my finding at the wiki as you requested on StackOverflow.
Ill also make one for the multiproject guide.

[kingofday]

can some body help me please?
ligershark/side-waffle#410