Vista - Running a script from within Visual Studio?

I'm about to write some PS to do most of the grunt work of porting Cpp/
CLI functions into C# functions. Most of the steps are simple string
substitutions like so:

:: to .
System::Object^ to Object^
Object^ to object
^ to
System.Void to void
-> to .
L" to "
gcnew to new

but removing xxx_cast<>() may require some careful RegEx work (hence
my need for PS).

My first thoughts are to write a function in $profile that copies the
contents of the clipboard, transforms the code and then writes the
transformed code back to the clipboard. Calling this shouldn't be too
much of a burden - but I was just checking to see if there are any
better options available, like a context menu-item in VS to call a PS
script/host perhaps?

Many thanks,

Duncan

"Duncan Smith" <DSmith1974@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0f55e3ed-9a2c-4b6b-9368-d7b761591717@xxxxxxTwo thoughts come to mind. First, you could do this just using VS's Search
& Replace functionality. It supports regular expressions although the
syntax is non-standard. I've done this before by recording a search&replace
session and then editing the resulting VBA script file to suit my needs. I
did this for NUnit 1.x to 2.x where a lot changed and required significant
changes to the source code. Second, you could process these CPP files
outside of VS using a normal PowerShell script. I've done this to process
hundreds of VC++ project files that needed certain settings tweaked (and I
wasn't about to do it by hand).

--
Keith