Manage license headers for your source code files in Visual Studio.

New files will automatically include the license headers defined in the current project.

License Header Manager allows you to:

Define license headers per Visual Studio project and per file extension
Share license headers between projects via "Add as Link"
Add, remove and replace headers at any time for one or all files
Put your license headers in #regions

Documentation on GitHub

Version 2.0.0 includes:

Added support for VS2017 (#57)
Dropped support for VS2010. If you need support for Visual Studio 2010, version 1.7.3 can be downloaded from github.com.

Release Notes 2.0.0

Version 1.7.3 includes:

Defined Newline behavior and fixed minor bugs concerning Newlines at the start of the file or the end of the defined license header (#59, #62, #63)
Added all known supported Languages to the Languages Settings (#47)
Fixed #37, #42. #44, #56, #64, #65

Release Notes 1.7.3

Version 1.7.2 includes:

Fix "Crash with PHP Tools for Visual Studio" (#32)
Fix "GetHeaderRecursive (ProjectItem) throws StackOverflowException in CustomProjectTypes" (#36)

Release Notes 1.7.2

Version 1.7.1 includes:

Fix „Version 1.7.0 with VS2015 Community - The system cannot find the file specified” (#22)
Fix “"Add license header to all projects" keeps consuming memory instead of releasing the resources after each file is done” (#25)

Release Notes 1.7.1

Version 1.7 includes:

Release Notes 1.7

Version 1.6 includes

Support for VS2015
Added solution-level commands
Support for linked files
Support for WIXPROJ
Support for SQLPROJ
Displaying progress information when updating the entire solution (#2)
Various bug fixes

Release Notes 1.6