Determine which files are used by which projects

[ZerMahlMeer]

Good Morning,

is there an easy way to determine which header-, source, .uir files are used in which projects? I have multiple projects using a shared codebase. I would like to see which projects would be effectetd if I make changes.

My current solution is opening the project files but that is fairly prone to errors and takes a lot of time.

Thanks!

[WireWeaver]

Hi,

I don't know of any built in CVI functionality to do this. There is a handy utility called Dependency Walker for doing pretty much the opposite of what you want, but I don't think there is any kind of "where used" functionality. I suspect this would be a good use case for some kind of source code control. Alternatively, you could just manually track your files in a database.

[ZerMahlMeer]

Thanks WireWeaver!

I have used Dependency Walker, but in this case I ended up doing something else. Since the project files are basically text files, I opened alle relevant project files with a text editor, copied one after each other to an excel spreadsheet, performed some Excel magic to get rid of all the directory crap and used a pivot table to check which files where used in multiple places. Probably not the most elegant way, but it worked for me and I was able to find all shared files between the projects.

Thanks again and have a good one,

ZerMahlMeer