Copy & Paste about filenesting

[VaclavElias]

Hi, a little update on this. I tried to copy one bunch of nested files from one project to another project and guess what? Yes, same as my initial comment. You cannot copy and paste nested files even from one project to another.

The way around is an inconvenient for this feature. Un-nest, copy and paste and nest again..

[madskristensen]

AFAIK, this is a limitation in the VS project system. I don't think I can do anything about it.

[VaclavElias]

Hmm, thanks for the quick response again Mads. So we have to wait till VS
is open source as well? :)

On 7 October 2014 16:15, Mads Kristensen [email protected] wrote:

AFAIK, this is a limitation in the VS project system. I don't think I can
do anything about it.

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[madskristensen]

Well, perhaps @jaredpar knows how to make that work?

[jaredpar]

By nested files do you mean files which are nested directly below another file as a child element? Essentially in the manner in which xaml or win forms files appear?

[VaclavElias]

I am confused by your questions but this is an example of the scenario. I
wanted to copy files font-awesome.css and font-awesome.min.css to the
project above but I couldn't because the .min.css is nested. The only way
to do it currently is to un-nest .min.css, copy both files to the project
above and then nest them again in all projects..

https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4528464/4549050/446506e4-4e5a-11e4-9048-20e406bb3760.jpg

I don't know how this works but I have attached the image what I mean :)
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On 7 October 2014 20:34, Jared Parsons [email protected] wrote:

By nested files do you mean files which are nested directly below another
file as a child element? Essentially in the manner in which xaml or win
forms files appear?

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[jaredpar]

Thanks for the picture. We are indeed talking about the same thing.

Off hand I don't know of a solution, or if one is possible, will ask around.

[VaclavElias]

Thanks, ..I didn't get it but the picture confirmed it :)

Thanks for asking, let's see :)

On 7 October 2014 20:46, Jared Parsons [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for the picture. We are indeed talking about the same thing.

Off hand I don't know of a solution, or if one is possible, will ask
around.

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[jaredpar]

I played around with this for a bit and it was actually mostly working for me. Here is exactly what I did

1. Cloned FileNesting
2. Hit F5
3. Created 2 Console Application projects in one solution
4. Added a foo.js and foo.js.min and nested them
5. Collapsed the nesting, copied and pasted in the other project

At that point both foo.js and foo.js.min showed up in the other project with the proper nesting.

I did notice in all of this that the nested file itself is not eligable for being copied. If I hit Ctrl+C VS won't ring an error bell it just won't do anything. Existing clipboard contents remain unchanged.

Is the inability to copy the nested file the bug you are referring to?

[VaclavElias]

Ok, what you have played around with is indeed working, I don't have a clue
why it wasn't working for me at that time? The most original post in this
thread is referring indeed to the bug you said "the inability to copy the
nested" + yes, it keeps existing content.

These are 2 scenarios were you would like to have it working:

1. You have got let's say a few nested js files and you would like to add a
   new file to the nest. Instead of playing with mouse "right click folder,
   finding Add, finding JavaScript" the fastest way to duplicate file is
   Ctrl+C and Ctrol+V (and delete content or part) and js file is ready

WORK AROUND: Just follow "right click folder, find Add (in the list), click
Add, find JavaScript File (in the list), click JavaScript File, name the
file as your nest.something.js" and then it will be automatically or
manually nested

2. You have got 2 applications, your nest with nested files and you would
   like to copy only 1+ new nested .js file to your other project to the same
   nest.
   WORK AROUND: Un-nest in project one, Ctrl-C the files, CTRL-V the files to
   the other project and then come back to the first project and nest your
   files again

So, by using the cool nesting feature these scenarios about doesn't allow
you doing it easily. I guess, I wouldn't bother to fix it if it is not a
questions of a few minutes because it seems it is only me raising this up :)

Thanks for looking at this anyway!!

On 7 October 2014 22:41, Jared Parsons [email protected] wrote:

I played around with this for a bit and it was actually mostly working for
me. Here is exactly what I did

1. Cloned FileNesting
2. Hit F5
3. Created 2 Console Application projects in one solution
4. Added a foo.js and foo.js.min and nested them
5. Collapsed the nesting, copied and pasted in the other project

At that point both foo.js and foo.js.min showed up in the other project
with the proper nesting.

I did notice in all of this that the nested file itself is not eligable
for being copied. If I hit Ctrl+C VS won't ring an error bell it just
won't do anything. Existing clipboard contents remain unchanged.

Is the inability to copy the nested file the bug you are referring to?

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