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date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:20:00 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.vsnet.general
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Re: how to import directory hierarchy into VS2008
Hi,
Couple of things to bear in mind.
1. VS2008 is a dev tool, it's not for HTML and IMG files. If you have a
lot of static content and also some dynamic code, the usual solution
would be to separate all your code from your HTML, then only load the
code part into VS2008. This will also make things much quicker (e.g.
version control).
2. Make sure you understand the difference between "WebSite" projects
and "Web Application" projects, two very different ways of working.
PMac wrote:
> i have a hierarchy of 40 directories with 1000 html and img files. i would
> like to use vs2008 to edit them ... but i can't figure out how to create a
> project and get all the files visible in their original hierarchy.
>
> i tried dragging the top directory into the project (as link), and vs
> flattened the list of files so there was a huge unstructured list. not useful
>
> i can fake it using "filters" by manually creating the hierarchy (ultra
> tedious) and adding files from each folder to each "filtered" node, but that
> is really bad because the names are explicit so any files added to the
> filesystem are not visible until they are explicitly added. i did try this
> partially, and it has the additional problem that "view in browser" is broken
> - it only seems to map the node of the file being viewed. that means images
> linked to peer directories all fail.
>
> is this just not possible in VS2008?
>
> at some point i did have this working fine in one of the older VS express
> tools, but even there i forget how i created the "project" from existing
> files on disk; it was not intuitive.
>
> any tips
>
> TIA
>
> PMac
>
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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:42:21 +0100
author: Gerry Hickman am
Re: how to import directory hierarchy into VS2008
Hi PMac,
Yes, I agree it's confusing. It sounds like you've now found what you
need. The WebSite "project" basically comprises the files contained
within it's source location, whereas the Web Application Project can
have certain files included or excluded.
PMac wrote:
> "Gerry Hickman" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Couple of things to bear in mind.
>>
>> 1. VS2008 is a dev tool, it's not for HTML and IMG files. If you have a
>> lot of static content and also some dynamic code, the usual solution
>> would be to separate all your code from your HTML, then only load the
>> code part into VS2008. This will also make things much quicker (e.g.
>> version control).
>
> i actually like the VS html editor - it is pretty clean and formats and
> validates
> html nicely. I'm not coding a web app at the moment - this is actually help
> content for a java app.
>
>> 2. Make sure you understand the difference between "WebSite" projects
>> and "Web Application" projects, two very different ways of working.
>>
>
> Ha ... that gave me the clue. if you follow the prompting of the start page
> it only has "create project" options with the hundreds of templates ... but
> none relevant for me.
>
> the thing missing from the start page is "new website"; i was blinded by the
> start page and didn't look at the file -> new menu.
>
> A website does exactly what i want - which is really simple. Once it's
> created it "is a project" in the solution explorer, but for whatever reasons
> you don't create it as a project.
>
> thanks
>
> PMac
>
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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:11:51 +0100
author: Gerry Hickman am
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