Question

This is what I see in the solution explorer (simple wpf project):

This is what I would like to have:

There are two files dependent of the MainWindow.xaml

The obvious drag & drop of MainWindowViewModel.cs to MainWindow.xaml yields an error

can’t move file. Same destination
folder.

How can I achieve this? Should be simple, but I can’t find it …

Thanks for any hints

Answer 1

You can do that from within visual studio as far as i know. You can however manually edit the .csproj file and modify the Compile Include element for your viewmodel like this:

<Compile Include="MainWindowViewModel.cs">
  <DependentUpon>MainWindow.xaml</DependentUpon>
  <SubType>Code</SubType>
</Compile>

I havent actually done this in practice but it should get you what you want. However beware that visual studio might think thats is a generated file and delete it when you save the xamlfile, so make sure you backup your work before trying

-edit-

Did a quick test and it seems to work, visual studio doesnt seem to mind or interfere either.