Group Items in Itemtemplate

Question

If this question is already answered, please point me to the correct answer. I haven't found a similar question here.

I have created an Itemtemplate with two files, which need grouping after adding them to a project.

Is it possible to add an attribute or similar to the template-definition?

So far I've following code in the MyTemplate.vstemplate-file:

.......     
<TemplateContent>
    <References />
    <ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">filename.cs</ProjectItem>
    <ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.Properties.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">filename.Properties.cs</ProjectItem>
</TemplateContent>
.......

I know (from Stackoverflow ;-) ) how to group files manually after the adding in the Project-Explorer and this is not the answer I'm looking for.

I hope anybody knows the answer to this.

Not any Idieas how to do this? – Stelzi79 Mar 05 '12 at 16:21 — Stelzi79, Mar 05 '12 at 16:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '13 at 18:46

I would suggest you to try this way:

<TemplateContent>
    <ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">filename.cs</ProjectItem>
    <ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.cs\$fileinputname$.Properties.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">filename.Properties.cs</ProjectItem>
</TemplateContent>

I've found the solution here (see the "Community Additions" section). Thus sometimes comments are more useful than an original article (especially about VS templates).

Yes that looks like it ist the answer to my question. I think it's a shame that such things aren't propper documented. — Stelzi79, Apr 23 '13 at 21:42

Group Items in Itemtemplate

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