Visual Studio Custom Item Template Dependent Upon

Question

I'm writing my own custom item template for use within visual studio. All is well except I need to find a way to get one of the files in the template to be dependent upon another.

In a csproj file it would look like this

<Compile Include="Class1.cs">
    <DependentUpon>Class1.xml</DependentUpon>
</Compile>

Does anybody have any idea how I would define this in the vstemplate file?

Thanks

Leafage

How did you solve this? I flagged this question for reopening because the duplicate actually isn't a duplicate, its another question. – Gilges

Agree this is not a duplicate. This is about Item Templates, not just editing .proj files (as the other question relates to) – Nor

Please select the answer. the answer by @Yasin Kilicdere worked for me. – Branen

Answer 1

<ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">Test.cs</ProjectItem>
<ProjectItem SubType="Code" TargetFileName="$fileinputname$.cs\$fileinputname$Dependent.cs" ReplaceParameters="true">TestDependent.cs</ProjectItem>

Ovariectomy

This answer wasn't selected as correct but I have tested it in VS2012 and it DOES work... – Gondar

I tested in VS2012 it DOES work. It's the most simple and correct way. – Mirabelle

Works on VS 2017 too – Ferd

Note that this behavior was apparently not officially supported and no longer works in VS 16.5 – Dolt

Answer 2

Not sure if this can happen automatically for non-managed file types (i.e. file types that VS doesn't know about, like yours)...

A hack would be to use WizardExtensions (google for examples on writing a basic wizard) like this:

• Add the files initially as .cs and .designer.cs.
• Then use wizardExtensions to rename those files

or

• see if wizard extensions can directly modify the csproj (but that be difficult as VS might not let you do that without unloading the project first).

hope this helps...

Cascade