Naming Conventions For Partial Class Files

Question

I\'m generating the bulk of my ASP.NET MVC scaffolding code. All generated files are partial classes which use standard naming conventions. For example, my employee controll

Answer 1

I use . separation - for example EmployeeController.SomeSpecialBehaviour.cs. I also link it into the project tree via "dependentUpon" or whatever it is in the csproj, so that it nests under the file (in solution explorer) neatly. You have to do that by hand (edit the csproj) or with an addin, though; for example:

<Compile Include="Subfolder/Program.cs" />
<Compile Include="Subfolder/Program.Foo.cs">
  <DependentUpon>Program.cs</DependentUpon> <!-- Note that I do not reference the subfolder here -->
</Compile>

appears as:

• Subfolder
  • Program.cs
    • Program.Foo.cs

Answer 2

To add to Marc Gravell♦'s answer, I had a situation with files in a subfolder and the DependentUpon node being ignored. The short of it is that in such a case it my xml had to be:

<Compile Include="foo\bar.cs" />
<Compile Include="foo\bar.baz.cs">
    <DependentUpon>bar.cs</DependentUpon>  <!-- Note that I do not reference the subfolder here -->
</Compile>

I hope this helps someone :)