Starting new .NET projects always involves a bit of work. You have to create the solution, add projects for different tiers (Domain, DAL, Web, Test), set up references, solution structure, copy javascript files, css templates and master pages etc etc.

What I'd like is an easy way of cloning any given solution.

If you use copy/paste, the problem is that you need to then go through renaming namespaces, assembly names, solution names, GUIDs etc.

Is there a way of automating this?

Something like this would be great:

solutionclone.exe --solution=c:\code\abc\template.sln --to=c:\code\xyz --newname=MySolution

I'm aware that Visual Studio has project templates, but I've not seen solution templates.

Ideas welcome, thanks in advance folks!