Solution folders automatically mapped into physical folders by j2

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Type:	Suggestion
ID:	642861
Opened:	2/11/2011 5:45:03 AM
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Today, if I create solution folder, it is not mapped to the physical folder on my hard drive. Than, if I want to add project into the solution folder, I always have to validate the path, where the new project will be added. In my case, I always wants to have the same physical folder as the solution folder. Turing the creation new solution folder it should be possible to choose, if it will by physical folder or only virtual solution folder (like today).

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Visual Studio 2010

Create new empty solution with name Solutoin1. Place this solution into the foldeer C:\Projects\Solution1. Add new solution folder Source into the solution. Right click on the solution folder Source an click "New Project...". Select Class Library project. The location for this new project will be set to C:\Projects\Solution1.

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Windows 7

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Today, the solution folder names are not added to the preset value of Location of new project, which are added to the solution. If you want to have the solution structure the same with physical location on hard drive, you need to chande Location value. it is easy to make mistake during the project creation and than you have to repair it.

It shold be posible in properties window of the solution folder to choose, if I want to automatically map this folder to the physical folder or not. If i set that i want to do this mapping, than during creation of new projects into the solution folder their location will be preset to the path containing the solution folder names (c:\Projects\Solution1\Source). This settings of the folder shoul be placed into the solution file, so, it should be shared beetwen users using source control.

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Posted by Laughing John on 8/15/2011 at 7:47 AM

Quite agree! How come this is closed?

Posted by Nitro52 on 6/20/2011 at 2:30 AM

This is badly needed and is the expected behaviour in most case. For an example if you want a solution folder for dependencies you can add a dll to it but the referencing is wrong. this causes issues when your sharing projects with others. The work around is to create the windows folder first, then add it to the solution folder but this becomes tedious to maintain and is very easy to forget.

To me and i think a lot of other it makes sense to have the same physical folder structure as the solution. its a shame finding issues on connect is not very discoverable otherwise i think this would have a lot more votes

Posted by Microsoft on 2/16/2011 at 5:45 PM

Thanks for the suggestion, we'll consider for a future release.
Dan

Posted by Microsoft on 2/11/2011 at 6:13 AM

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