License Header Manager

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

Release Notes

Version 5.0.1 includes:

• NullReferenceException when performing a clean installation of LicenseHeaderManager instead of an upgrade (#170)

Version 5.0.0 includes:

• Support for Visual Studio 2022 (#141)
• Breaking Change: Support for Visual Studio 2019 + 2017 is provided via separate package available on GitHub as LicenseHeaderManager.2019.vsix due to constraints in Visual Studio extension model.
• Breaking Change: Support for Visual Studio 2015 has been dropped due to constraints in Visual Studio extension model.

Version 4.0.0 includes:

• Decouple core functionality from Visual Studio extension project into independent library (#123)

Version 3.0.3 includes:

• Add support for Visual Studio 16.1 and greater (#112)

Version 3.0.2 includes:

• Fix a bug where adding new linked commands would require a Visual Studio restart (#111)

Version 3.0.1 includes:

• Fix Settings not working correctly (#108)
• Add .cshtml and .vbhtml to Languages (#106)

Version 3.0.0 includes:

• Drop support for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013. If you need support for Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013, version 2.0.3 can be downloaded from github.com.
• Add Visual Studio 2019 support. (#103)
• Fix Typescript Language Skip Expression to respect multiple reference elements. (#102)
• Change solution level definition file to be defined with UTF8 rather than ANSI. (#95)

Version 2.0.3 includes:

• Add "Solution level header definition file" (#58) (see wiki for more information)
• Fix "Package does not load" (#84)

Version 2.0.2 includes:

• Fix "LicenseHeaderManager throws "The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))." when trying to add the LicenseHeader" (#68)
• Fix "Visual Studio crashes sometimes when trying to execute 'Add License Headers to All Projects' on Solution" (#75)

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.