Generate Visual Studio C++ Filters Extention

About

Fork of https://github.com/BobbyAnguelov/GenerateFiltersExtension and updated for Visual Studio 2022:

• Adds support for vcxitems (shared items project)

Fork of https://github.com/Dllieu/VisualStudioCppExtensions and updated for Visual Studio 2019:

• Generate C++ Project's Filters
• Simple Extension which provide the ability to generate C++ project filters to replicate the folder hierarchy of the underlying sources
• It was originally made to browse easily C++ code hosted on a Linux machine while benefiting of the Visual Studio's features (e.g. GUI, Go to Definition / Declaration, Compile / Debug through SSH, ...)

Installation

• Download the *.vsix package from the latest release
• Double click on the downloaded package and follow the instructions

Example Usage

Open an existing C++ solution

In the example below, I drag and dropped a folder into an empty C++ Project, all the files are imported but the whole project is flat as visual studio does not replicate the folder hierarchy of the files for C++ projects

Right click on the project for which you want to generate the filters per folder, a menu Generate C++ Project Filters will appear (only appearing when right-clicking on a C++ project)

Click on Generate C++ Project Filters, a confirmation will be required to generate the filters

Once the filters are generated, the extension will automatically reload the current project if needed. Accept the changes made by the extension by clicking yes

As a result, your C++ project will have filters that replicate your C++ sources folder hierarchy

Dependencies for developers

If you are interested in enhancing this extension, you must install Visual Studio 2017 SDK

Debug

You have to change the debug settings for the VSIXProject to be able to debug it (Properties -> Debug)

• Start external program : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
• Command line arguments: /rootsuffix EXP