Nesting doesn't work in Shared Projects about filenesting

[madskristensen]

The Shared Project system in VS doesn't support nesting, unfortunately. There is nothing an extension can do to fix that

[mterwoord]

Hmm, so I have to resort to manual file editing I guess. If i add xml (DependentUpon) it works fine...

[madskristensen]

Ahh, if it works manually I should be able to do it through this extension then. Can you attach a repo project please or outline the repo steps?

[mterwoord]

That's what I hoped for.. :)

How to attach a project?

[madskristensen]

put on dropbox/onedrive/whatever and post the url here

[mterwoord]

See https://github.com/mterwoord/VS2015SharedProjectFileNesting

[madskristensen]

Thanks. The problem is that shared projects use a .projitems file and the APIs don't know what to do with it

[mterwoord]

Too bad..

I guess using xml magic is out of the question? :)

[Cybrosys]

Isn't it possible to just open and edit the .projitems file in the extension?

I haven't made a VS Extension before so I don't know what is and what is not possible.

If you're able to get the selected file's names and paths into the extension as data, then opening and editing the .projitems file shouldn't be a problem. The only problem I do see with that approach is that VS will prompt you to reload projects because the file was changed.