Solution level settings default values

[stephanjohnson]

Building micro-services means we are constantly adding new projects to our solutions. We have to remember to set specific settings for every new service. We want to be able to quickly on-board new projects into our solution, knowing that they share the same basic settings.

It would be great if, at solution level, there can be some sort of default settings template that is based on what modules are installed in all of the projects. I want to be able to right click the solution and have an option called Default Settings where I can set default values that can be applied to projects that have those modules installed.

The way I imagine this is that it looks at all of the modules that are installed in every application and then builds a settings page that has the settings for every module in one place. I can then change these settings, and when a new project is created, it will use the settings from the solution level settings as the default values.

This can then maybe extend into the settings to allow me to, per module, choose to always use the solution level settings, or override on a per-application level.

Possible issues

1. A new version of a module changes the available module settings - This would be a problem is a specific setting is removed, or changes the way the setting is presented (i.e. from a check-box to a drop down list). This should really only be a problem if one or more project(s) use an older version of the module, and only some of the projects have been updated to the latest version
2. Multiple versions of modules are installed in different projects - I imagine that only the latest version will be available in the application wide settings page, or that the module versions are displayed side-by-side with the module version number in the title of the settings pane.