How to break large VS solution into smaller solutions

Question

We have a VS2008 solution file containing about 80 projects (yes, I know this sucks).

Projects are located in different folders, and some may depend on other third-party DLL files in the top-level "Libs" folder.

We would like to reorganize this into several smaller .sln files, each of which contains a reasonable number of projects.

The problem is that when moving project files, the relative paths stored in them will break, so we will have to make many manual “fixes” to fix this.

Is there any tool or some proven technique for doing something like this?

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lysergic-acid Jul 19 '12 at 12:00

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desigeek · Answer 1 · 2012-07-20T16:45:11+0000

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