Cleaning up Visual Studio's Directory Pollution

[Will Chamberlain]

I consider myself somewhat of a neat-freak when it comes to organization
of information. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that includes
should be in the includes folder, images in the image folder. Hell, the
databases should even be in a database folder. Are there any ways to
configure VS.NET to store vb, xsd, cs, resx, etc... somewhere besides
the root directory? Don't get me wrong, I think Visual Studio .NET is a
great product, it's just that I think that it's rather sloppy to have
the overabundance of files in one directory. Since I am now working for
a larger company and need to build more industrial-strength
applications, I have no choice but to use Visual Studio and would think
that a software suite of this magnitude would allow for customization of
a web directory.

Don't even get me started on Visual Studio's HTML source.

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stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do
we." President George W. Bush

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[Juan T. Llibre]

Your prayers have been answered...in V.2.0

You not only have a /bin directory now, but have :

/App_Code
/App_GlobalResources
/App_LocalResources
/App_WebReferences
/App_Data
/App_Browsers
/App_Themes

There's an easy way to configure the IDE so that
it doesn't mangle your HTML source, too.

Is there anything else you wanted ?

;-)


Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
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"Will Chamberlain" <wi**************@devdex.com> wrote in message
news:u6**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

I consider myself somewhat of a neat-freak when it comes to organization
of information. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that includes
should be in the includes folder, images in the image folder. Hell, the
databases should even be in a database folder. Are there any ways to
configure VS.NET to store vb, xsd, cs, resx, etc... somewhere besides
the root directory? Don't get me wrong, I think Visual Studio .NET is a
great product, it's just that I think that it's rather sloppy to have
the overabundance of files in one directory. Since I am now working for
a larger company and need to build more industrial-strength
applications, I have no choice but to use Visual Studio and would think
that a software suite of this magnitude would allow for customization of
a web directory.

Don't even get me started on Visual Studio's HTML source.

[Will Chamberlain]

The non-mangling of HTML source code is reason enough to go with 2005!

Now do I have to wait until I get 2005 to use this or can I strong-arm
2003?

I just realized that I received an Enterprise MSDN Subscription when I
started this job. I might have to check that out tomorrow!

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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do
we." President George W. Bush

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[Juan T. Llibre]

If you have an Enterprise MSDN Subscription,
you can download the Release Candidate from Subscriber Downloads.

Start here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/


Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
ASP.NET FAQ : http://asp.net.do/faq/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
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"Will Chamberlain" <wi**************@devdex.com> wrote in message
news:ep**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

The non-mangling of HTML source code is reason enough to go with 2005!

Now do I have to wait until I get 2005 to use this or can I strong-arm
2003?

I just realized that I received an Enterprise MSDN Subscription when I
started this job. I might have to check that out tomorrow!

---
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do
we." President George W. Bush

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