TechShorts

I have started doing more scratch programming, one off little bits of code that I use and throw away. I found that I am not coding as much at work as I need to be, or want to be for that matter. I am loosing my touch. Like any thing else, if you don't use it you loose it. When I create projects I like to follow a specific file structure. Nothing fancy, I use a solution folder with folders for lib, src and tests. So when I create my scratch solutions I want to create the same folder structure, but there is no easy way to do it with Visual Studio. I tried to create a project template, which would work if what I wanted was skeleton projects. But what I want are skeleton folders and the VS templates won't create those. What I wound up doing was create an MSI using NSIS that would create the folder structure and copy core libraries that I like to use. So far it is working out pretty good and was surprisingly simple to create, not by hand of course but with HM NIS Edit, a fre