I have been trying to edit vcproj files in VS2008 using perl. My intention is to edit the "default" project settings that are not visible while editing the .vcproj file from a text editor. I have a perl script that uses XML::Simple to read and write the project settings information. But the issue found here is that the visual studio 2008 IDE fails to recognise the newly generated .vcproj via this xml method.
Can anyone please suggest what could be useful way of editing the default project settings in .vcproj using perl script as I need to edit lot many project files via this method? Thanks!