I like using WSPBuilder for my SharePoint projects and if you do much SharePoint development, it is an absolute must have tool.  One of the issues I ran into with the IDE in Visual Studio 2008 is when you create the WSP it was giving it a name that I did not care for.  If you renamed it and then try using the deploy command you will get an error.  Thanks to “Bill Simser | Name that WSP” blog, it turns out it very simple to define the naming of the file.

He does it a bit different and probably explains it better than me; the concept is the same.  I keep a folder of code that I often reuse (i.e. config files).  I copied over the WSPBuilder.exe.config file to this folder; my root config file was at “C:\Program Files\WSPTools\WSPBuilderExtensions”.  I added the key

<add key="WSPName" value="myName.Space.Project.wsp" />

to inside the app settings node.  Now when I start a new project, I just use the Add Existing file dialog in Visual Studio to add the file to root of the project.  Like most config files, the local will append/override the parent file.  Now I just edit the value to get the name I want.  By the way you will see some other options in the config file that are commented out; that may prove to be usefull.

Thanks Bill for this so very important piece of information.