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The solution explorer should mirror the file system

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One thing I and all other developers I’ve ever talked about it with hate, is the mismatch between what you see in the Solution Explorer of Visual Studio and the file system. Having to create a duplicate folder hierarchy for stuff that isn’t within a project (files like README.md on the solution root, for instance) suck.

I think this is somewhat related to #106 and #197, but I believe it’s important to express that most developers I know, including me, would like the Solution Explorer to be a physical file browser with a .gitignore applied and not a virtual explorer of incomprehensible stuff within the .sln file that is impossible to hand edit or make sense of.

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  • State:open
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Reactions:37
  • Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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seangwrightcommented, Jun 8, 2016

@asbjornu Visual Studio Code has the ‘view files and folders as they are on the file system’ approach while also allowing you to restrict what shows up through (project/folder) configuation. This configuration even accepts some limited conditional logic.

I’ve been using VS Code a lot for javascript development and comparing the filesystem project approach to the project file project approach has been interesting.

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davkeancommented, May 26, 2016

@asbjornu Can you try the VS 15 Preview, and try this feature: image

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It sounds like more what you are looking for.

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