Visual Studio for Mac enables developers to create applications using.NET and C# only. Visual Studio for Mac should also provide support for C++ development, using compilers available on the system (gcc, Clang, etc.).
I have a c++ project with lots of folders and compiles to lots of different executables, I want to open the entire thing in visual studio and have it keep the folder structure of my project.
Right now when try to create a new VS project and import my non-VS c++ project, it automatically puts all header files in one folder and source files in another completely ignoring my folder structure. How do I get visual studio to keep my folder structure when opening a C++ project that's not created with visual studio?
BradleyDotNET2 Answers
I suppose you can select the project and then select Show All Files from Solution Explorer tool bar. You can then Include and Exclude files/folders from the project directory.
Right click the folder you want them to be in in Solution Explorer, select Add->Existing Item...
This skips a lot of the nice updating/verifying performed when you create a new VS project from existing files but is one way to structure a lot of files.
I'd prefer to manage them within Solution Explorer but I feel this is so obvious you either dissapprove or have a prohibitively large number of files to hunt and sort them with the small Solution Explorer window pane.
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