We don't support that feature; hopefully maybe in a future release.

Thanks for the response. Hopefully this is reasonably high priority. It's a bit painful to be unable to organize project files in folders! Not a problem for toy apps, but for serious apps a necessity!

Regards,

Bill

I agree wholehartedly. If your project has more than a handful of files, working with them through the solution explorer becomes really difficult for obvoius reason - the order these files are shown in the windows explorer does not match the order in the solution explorer and you need to work with both.

I understand prefectly well the need to compile the code in a particular order - I assume breaking it would make type inference really difficult, still I think that there are several ways to show the files in the solution explorer in a more meaningful order.

One way is to make it a responsibility of the IDE to calculate the order of files (or report an error if it is not possible). This seems to be a simple matter of ordering a dirgraph of the files.

If for any reason (on the fly performance?) this is not possible, I would still like the solution explorer to show the files in the "windows explorer order" - sorted by name, and use a different screen/view/tool to specify the order in which the files have to be compiled.

I just do not see how these two functions - displaying project file directory and controlling compilation order can be combined in a single screen in a way usable for bigger projects

The issue is complicated by the fact that compilation order is relevant. Hence you could get an ordering like:

• file1.fs
• folder1 (containing .fs files)
• file2.fsi
• file3.fs
• folder2

It's on my list to look into this for #develop. If I find a reasonable solution, I'll implement it. If not, you will still be able to order your files in directories, but the files will show as non-hierarchical list in the project explorer.