How to add a folder called "Foo" to a project?

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Created June 20, 2014 21:10

            IProjectFolder folder = project.GetOrCreateProjectFolder(FileSystemPath.Parse("Foo"));

I'm unable to add a new folder called "Foo" to a IProject of an existing project. The returned value is always null.

2 comments

Matt Ellis

Created June 23, 2014 09:34

I think the path you pass in has to be fully qualified, not relative. Looking at the implementation of GetOrCreateProjectFolder, it first checks that path is defined under the location of the project/project folder you're calling the extension method on. This is to ensure that you don't try to create a project item that lives outside of the project hierarchy. You can easily handle this with something like:

var location = project.Location.Combine("Foo");
var folder = project.GetOrCreateProjectFolder(location);

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Created June 23, 2014 14:07

Thanks Matt, that was the trick.

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