Collapsing Related Files in Visual Studio

Question

In Visual Studio as most of you will have noticed that related file can be collapsed in to one. E.G.

Form1.cs
- Form1.Designer.cs

I'm creating a DAL library and will be splitting partial classes in to several files such as:

SomeTableClass.cs
- SomeTableClass.Generated.cs
- SomeTableClass.SomethingElse.cs

Is there any way in Visual Studio to recognise these file are related to each other an create the collapsible effect?

Thanks

Tony

For VS 2010 (version 10), use HKCU instead: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046591/visual-studio-2010-related-file-nesting][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046591/visual-studio-2010-related-file-nesting — Mr. TA, Jun 04 '12 at 16:24

James Curran · Accepted Answer · 2008-12-03T15:26:49.870

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In my (VisualStudio 2005) system, they are stored in the registry under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}\RelatedFiles

For VisualStudio 2008, change the \8.0\ to \9.0\

Note, however, that the GUID in the middle refers to the type of project (VB Console, C# Web, etc) it is. You may have to poke around to find the right one for you.

edited Dec 03 '08 at 15:26

answered Dec 03 '08 at 15:14

James Curran

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '09 at 17:57

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In VS 2008, there is also a project file-level way to do this via the DependentUpon tag. You would edit your project file to look like this:

<Compile Include="SomeTableClass.cs" />
<Compile Include="SomeTableClass.Generated.cs">
    <DependentUpon>SomeTableClass.cs</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

answered Mar 30 '09 at 17:57

OwenP

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True but if you have a lot of files to collapse - this could take a while ;) - Cheers anyway – TWith2Sugars Mar 30 '09 at 21:29

dansays · Answer 3 · 2009-11-01T17:27:24.870

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In my Windows 7 x64 environment, the registry keys for Visual Studio 2008 Professional are located here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Projects\{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}\RelatedFiles

edited Nov 01 '09 at 17:27

answered Nov 01 '09 at 17:22

dansays

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 02 '13 at 18:39

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In Visual Studio 2012, they are to be found in the HKCU, i.e.:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}\RelatedFiles

answered Nov 02 '13 at 18:39

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sadly I have not managed to use the .ts with .js. It seems it does not work for all extensions this way – Sebastian Nov 04 '13 at 22:19

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 04 '13 at 16:52

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A useful VS plugin has since popped up that takes care of this problem for me: NestIn

answered Nov 04 '13 at 16:52

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 18 '23 at 14:42

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By Visual Studio 2022 there is a feature named, "File nesting" which can be toggled from the Solution Explorer toolbar button.

answered May 18 '23 at 14:42

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