Visualstudio-docs: No way to refer project root name

[weitzhandler]

Hi,

I have a project composed of few platforms that looks like the following:

• MyProject.Shared
• MyProject.UWP
• MyProject.Droid
• etc.

I need to add a reference in all projects that point to the shared project. The problem is that the generated _csproj_ (for instance in the UWP one) replaces $safeprojectname$.Shared with the full project name, so instead of adding MyProject1.Shared, MyProject1.UWP.Shared is added.

How can I overcome this?

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• ID: 5b76e208-2a2a-9fc3-98ff-147540157f32
• Version Independent ID: 5f5c9adf-da1d-ec0b-8af3-ccd2e27eaadc
• Content: Create multi-project templates for Visual Studio - Visual Studio
• Content Source: docs/ide/how-to-create-multi-project-templates.md
• Product: visual-studio-dev15
• GitHub Login: @gewarren
• Microsoft Alias: gewarren

[rhyous]

Isn't that what the ext_ prefix is for, to get the parent's variables?

[rhyous]

So you would use: $ext_safeprojectname$.Shared

[weitzhandler]

Yes it does. But it's not mentioned in the docs whatsoever.
Here's my Q/A in SO.

[gewarren]

@weitzhandler Thanks for confirming that works. I'll add this to the backlog to update the article.

[gewarren]

@rhyous Thanks for providing the solution!

[cartermp]

@gewarren I believe this one is area-extensibility since it concerns authoring project templates.