Visual Studio 2008 - "Add Existing Item" within folder.

Hi Alex,

If you mean the project tree you simply can create new (sub-)folders and move the project files by drag and drop. If your project folder (in the project tree) already exists you may right-click on the folder and choose 'Add existing item ...'. Then the files chosen woudl appear in that folder.
This is the issue - they don't - they always jump into the root folder and I am not able to move them.

Thanks,
Uni

>>>> This is the issue - they don't - they always jump into the root folder and I am not able to move them.

I currently did it: I catched the stdafx.h which is a member of 'Header Files' with left mouse and moved it to the 'Source Files' folder of the same project. No problems though even the filters were h;hpp for Header Files and c;cpp;cc for Source Files.

What VS version you were using?

Are the folders part of different projects?

Is the .vcproj project file writeable?

Is there any source control involved?

It isn't the class tree but the project tree, right?

Hm, I think I should do a better job of explaining things. I've got the following collection of files:

C:\Library\ClassName1\ClassName1.h
C:\Library\ClassName1\ClassName1.cpp
C:\Library\ClassName2\ClassName2.h
C:\Library\ClassName2\ClassName2.cpp
C:\Library\ClassName3\ClassName3.h
C:\Library\ClassName3\ClassName3.cpp

Now, I've got a project that I'm wanting to use these files in:

D:\Solution1\Project1\

Which, has the hierarchy in Visual Studio as:

Solution1
      Project1

Now, when I create a new folder within Project1, say LibraryFiles, I then try to drag from explorer the folder C:\Library to LibraryFiles, the folder structure is not kept, instead I get the following (the hierarchy within VS):

Solution1
      Project1
            LibraryFiles
            ClassName1.h
            ClassName1.cpp
            ClassName2.h
            ClassName2.cpp
            ClassName3.h
            ClassName3.cpp


When I expected:

Solution1
      Project1
            LibraryFiles
                  ClassName1
                        ClassName1.h
                        ClassName1.cpp
                  ClassName2
                        ClassName2.h
                        ClassName2.cpp
                  ClassName3
                        ClassName3.h
                        ClassName3.cpp


As for your questions:

1) 2008.
2) See above.
3) Yes
4) No
5) It is the project tree.

Thanks,
Uni

Ok, I now understand.

You should know that I used all versions of Visual Studio since VC1.1 in 1993. Even the 16bit versions had some kind of project tree but I never ever tried to drag-drop files from explorer to the project tree let alone directories.

I did it now with VS2008 and was surprised that it worked at all, i. e. that by dragging a folder from the explorer to the project folder the files were added to the project tree though no folder hierarchy was created. I opened VC6 Studio (which currently is the oldest version running on my system) and the dragging to the project tree did not work. Instead the studio opens all the files as documents.

I tried VS2005 and it was like in VS2008. So I assume the feature was added with VS.NET.

That it doesn't add folders probably is due to the fact that VC project folders are not directories but categories.

So I take it its not possible?

Thanks,
Uni

Hi Dan, I don't appear to have a New Filter option?

Ah, apologies - I'm using the "Show All Files" - applying the filter works.

Thanks. :)
Uni

Thank you. :)