Microsoft Visual Studio (2008) - Filters in the Solution Explorer

Question

In the Solution Explorer when working with C++ projects there is the standard filters of Header Files, Resource Files, and Source Files. What I'm wanting to accomplish is essentially Filters by folder.

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Lets say the structure of the files was like this:

• ../Folder1/Source1.cpp
• ../Folder1/Header1.h
• ../Folder1/Source2.cpp
• ../Folder1/Header2.h
• ../AnotherFolder/Source1.cpp
• ../AnotherFolder/Header1.h
• ../AnotherFolder/Source2.cpp
• ../AnotherFolder/Header2.h
• ../SomeOtherSource.cpp

In the Solution Explorer, it would look like:

• Header Files/Header1.h
• Header Files/Header1.h
• Header Files/Header2.h
• Header Files/Header2.h
• Source Files/SomeOtherSource.cpp
• Source Files/Source1.cpp
• Source Files/Source1.cpp
• Source Files/Source2.cpp
• Source Files/Source2.cpp

And I would like to have it look like this:

• Header Files/AnotherFolder/Header1.h
• Header Files/AnotherFolder/Header2.h
• Header Files/Folder1/Header1.h
• Header Files/Folder1/Header2.h
• Source Files/AnotherFolder/Source1.cpp
• Source Files/AnotherFolder/Source2.cpp
• Source Files/Folder1/Source1.cpp
• Source Files/Folder1/Source2.cpp
• Source Files/SomeOtherSource.cpp

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How would this be accomplished?

Answer 1

显示所有文件？

Answer 2

You are free to manually create folders yourself and move the files around. I agree this is a much more convenient way to arrange files but AFAIK there is no way to make VS do this automatically.

Answer 3

You can create the Visual Studio Plugin to do this. I am not sure how you can access "Solution Explorer" programatically.

Answer 4

The only method I have found for doing this is completely manual. I have created a hierarchy of filters to match the folders. Then, I move to the "Show All File" view, and select a single folder. I add all files from that folder that are not in my solution to the solution. Then I leave "Show All Files.

At this point, VS does not seem to properly update my list of files. So I need to "Close Solution" and re-open the solution. At this point, the new files are in the solution, but not in a filter. They are in the top level, at the bottom of the project. At which point I drag them into the correct filter.

This is tedious, error-prone, and a waste of time. But since my project is built using an external make system, it's the only way I can keep the project reasonably up-to-date and still get decent search and browse behavior in Visual Studio. The time cost pays itself back in productivity later, but I still begrudge it.