Replacing string literal values in Visual Studio project templates

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Published on 2010-03-18T01:03:20Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 1:11 UTC
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I notice when I create a project template from an existing project in my solution, it does a semi-string replace to update references. However, it does not replace string literals. It does update my web.config file, but not code files.

The project template:

namespace MyTemplateProject
{
    class MyClass {
        public string GetStringValue() { return "MyProjectTemplate"; }
    }
}

The generated code when used as a template:

namespace MyActualNewProject
{
    class MyClass {
        public string GetStringValue() { return "MyProjectTemplate"; }
    }
}

How can I instruct the template maker to replace "MyProjectTemplate" wih "MyActualNewProject"?

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