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Add as Link and name space

In Visual Studio 2005, whenwe add an existing item, we can choose "add aslink" which does not physically copy the file, but only add a link to the file. It works well and is a helpful feature.

The question I have is that how to deal with the name space issue.

for example, if I define class Common in file common.cs:

usingSystem; 

publicclassCommon 

{ 

}

In project A( namespace Company.NSA ), I add common.cs as link.

In projectB( namespace Company.NSB ), I add common.cs as link.

What I want is that I will have have two classes: Company.NSA.Common and Company.NSB.Common - how can I have this?

TIA

webcliff Friday, January 30, 2009 3:01 PM

Hi,

I don´t be sure ifit can help you, but may give you a idea.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsx/thread/fec8246b-dc5c-4a4f-b127-b7df01add068/

I think that it is not easy.
The post recommend you that you must see the IronPhyton code, because thisfunctionality is developed in this package, remember with the VS2008 SDK, you have this example code.

I didn´t see the IronPhyton code yet.

I could see that exist the AddExistingItem() method, but it don´t have the "as link", o similar parameter:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/es-es/library/envdte.itemoperations.addexistingitem.aspx

greetings

Leandro Tuttini

Leandro Tuttini Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:49 PM

Hi TIA,

Is very straight forward, you can use the following snippet

DTE dte = GetService<DTE>();

Project project = DteHelper.GetSelectedProject(dte);

project.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(@"c:\foo.cs");

If the file is outside the project it will be added as a a link.

hth.

jose.

Jose Escrich - weblogs.asp.net/jescrich