Custom solution hierarchy

[jp2masa]

This project is really good, but I think that the generated solution is too complex.

The main problem is that projects should be grouped by folder, not project file, it's too hard to navigate on a solution where all projects are placed under a folder with the same name for no good reason...

It would also be good to be able to specify a custom path for projects, probably using some property on the project, and solution items, probably as item metadata.

Something like:

<Project ...>
    ...
    <PropertyGroup>
        <SlnGenHierarchyPath>Tests\</SlnGenHierarchyPath>
    </PropertyGroup>
    ...
</Project>

and

<Project ...>
    ...
    <ItemGroup>
        <SlnGenSolutionItem Include="build\Targets\**" HierarchyPath="Solution Items\build\Targets\" />
    </ItemGroup>
    ...
</Project>

Is this currently possible? If not, I can help implementing this.

[jeffkl]

At the moment you cannot customize the hierarchy. I've been wanting to put in these features:

• Flat hierarch (no folders at all)
• Collapse single project folders (if a folder contains only a single folder, collapse it to something like src\foo\bar)
• Custom hierarchy

If you have time to contribute anything, please feel free!

[jeffkl]

For now we support having folders or not. Let’s re-open if more people request custom hierarchy

[icnocop]

I think #466 and #467 are related.

[icnocop]

A humble +1 for generating a sln file with a custom solution folder hierarchy for a set of project files (or a traversal project file).

As a work-around, here are some other tools which may allow this:

1. Run slngen multiple times for each subtree and then merge the multiple sln files into one using dotnet-slnmerge or merge-solutions
2. SubSolution

[icnocop]

For reference, support for

Collapse single project folders (if a folder contains only a single folder, collapse it to something like src\foo\bar)

Was added with the --collapsefolders command line option.

It doesn't seem like there's an equivalent MSBuild property for it though.