Bug : Import folder recursively has been broken for ages

[Rob Belcham]

Can I please request that fixing the recursive folder import be added to the TODO list ? It has been broken for some time now.

You used to be able to right click an existing folder (filter) in the solution explorer and select Add -> Import Folder Recursively  and the selected files / folders would then appear underneath the folder you originally clicked. This doesn’t happen any more and all the files / folders get added to the root level of the solution so you have to go through manually moving them all.

Thanks

[support]

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[Rob Belcham]

Apologies for the terrible bug report! Here’s a clearer description of the issue.

1. Open VS
2. Create a new VGDB project with Custom Project Wizard
3. Click Next / Finish to create an empty project
4. Delete the empty Header files and Source files folders
5. Create an empty folder in File Explorer and call it Project
6. Inside the Project folder, create a folder called A
7. Inside the A folder, create a couple of empty files eg A1.h and A2.h
8. Inside the A folder still, create a folder called B
9. Inside the Bfolder, create a couple of files e.g B1.h and B2.h
10. Right click the project and click Add -> import folder recursively
11. Leaving “the folder is located on this computer” selected, browse to the Projectfolder created above and select it
12. EnableBypass "Source Files" and "Header Files" folders
13. Click OK
14. File tree is successfully imported as expected. (see Screenshot 1)
15. Inside the A folder in Windows File explorer, now create a C folder with c1.h and c2.hinside it.
16. Right click the A folder in the VS solution explorer and repeat steps 10,11&12 but selecting the C folder created in 15. (Screenshot 2)
17. At this point, I would expect the C folder to be created underneath the A folder in the project window but it doesn’t, it puts the c1.h files at the root of the project (screenshot 3)
18. What I would expect is to see screenshot 4. I think part of the issue is that the folder you select does not get created, only it’s contents, and it doesn’t place the contents at the level you selected in the tree.
19. The use case for this is working with a large project, where someone adds a new submodule, or folder and you want to import it into the project in a single step.

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[support]

Thanks for the detailed repro steps. The issue was triggered by adding folders to first-level Solution Explorer nodes with source/header filters disabled. As it is a relatively rare scenario, it makes sense why it wasn’t caught by our tests or reported by anyone else.

We have fixed the issue in the following build (and also added a checkbox for creating an extra node for the imported folder itself): VisualGDB-5.6.104.4538.msi

[Rob Belcham]

Amazing, thankyou! Works perfectly 🙂

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