Automatically include all .cpp/.h files of a folder in a vcproj Project in Visual Studio

Question

Is there a way to set a vcproj Project folder in order to automatically include all .cpp or .h files depending on the path of the project ?

On other words, when adding files to the folder of my project using Windows explorer, is it possible to have these new files automatically added to a vcproj Project, inside Visual Studio ? (even if I have to relaunch Visual Studio).
I do not need just to see them, but I need them to be automatically included inside the project for compiling and other operations...

The only way I see is to create a Visual Studio addin or a VB Script to do that...

Thanks, Regards

Medan

What are you trying to accomplish here? Are you generating code and you want the code to be compiled? If that, why not generate a vcproj for the generated files? – Legofmutton

I just want to be able to use several IDE, and have all the source files automatically taken into account into my vcproj Project. For exemple, I have to use Eclipse and Visual Studio. When an user create a file with Eclipse, I would like this file to be automatically inserted inside the Visual Studio project without doing it file by file by hand. – Medan

Answer 1

You can edit project file and use wildcards. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171454%28v=VS.90%29.aspx

Spirograph

But be careful. Visual Studio occasionally expands the wildcards out and re-saves the project file. – Yahairayahata

This doesn't seem to work with VC++ projects. The vcproj format file is not the same as the C# and VB one. When using wildcard, Visual insert the wildcard as a file... which do not work. Furthermore, Visual seems to ask for the mandatory flag "RelativePath" instead of "Include" (C# and VB). – Medan