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| Making VS Project Files Portable |
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| 22 April 2009 |
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| Making VS Project Files Portable |
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| To be able to make VS project files portable, NPanday 1.1 and above provides the Resync References functionality. |
| This will synchronize the references so that the project will still run in other user's machine. Added references |
| will be stored in hidden folder named ".references". When the project is used in other user's machine, the Resync |
| References functionality will download and store the references in the ".references" folder. |
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| To use Resync References button, right click on the project and go to 'All NPanday Projects' or 'Current NPanday |
| Project' in the context menu and select 'Resync References'. |
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| Intra-project references are skipped on Resync. Since this behavior was just applied recently in Version 1.0.2, |
| old POMs with intra-project references might generate an error during Resync or Import. To fix this, remove the |
| reference and add it back again. Or simply delete the POM and re-import the project. |
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| How Resync Works: |
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| * First NPanday will check for the dependency in the local repository, if the dependency is not found NPanday proceeds |
| to the next possible location. |
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| * If NPanday was not able to find the dependency in the local repository NPanday will proceed to check the remote |
| repositories found in the user's settings.xml. |
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| * For SNAPSHOT Dependencies NPanday bases from the maven-metadata.xml and gets the latest time stamp versioned dependency. |
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| In the next section we revisit {{{./importing.html} importing a project into Maven}}. Other topics are available on |
| the {{{./index.html} index}}. |
