SlnGen is a Visual Studio solution file generator. Visual Studio solutions generally do not scale well for large project trees. They are scoped views of a set of projects. Enterprise-level builds use custom logic like traversal to convey how they should be built by a hosted build environment. Maintaining Visual Studio solutions becomes hard because you have to keep them in sync with the other build logic. Instead, SlnGen reads the project references of a given project to create a Visual Studio solution on demand. For example, you can run it against a unit test project and be presented with a Visual Studio solution containing the unit test project and all of its project references. You can also run SlnGen against a traversal project in a rooted folder to open a Visual Studio solution containing that view of your project tree.
Install the package to an individual project (not recommended):
Install-Package SlnGen
Or add it your Directory.Build.props:
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="SlnGen" Version="2.0.0" />
</ItemGroup>Generate and open a Visual Studio solution with MSBuild:
> MSBuild /Restore /t:SlnGen
You can also create a DOSKEY alias as a shortcut
> doskey slngen=msbuild /nologo /v:m /t:slngen
More documentation is available at jeffkl.github.io/SlnGen.