How do I move source files to different directory?

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I am attempting to clean up an application and have the following:

[CApp.cpp, CApp.h, etc.]

  --> Subdirectory #1
           -->Subdirectory #2 [.cpp, .h, etc.] 

  -->Subdirectory NEW

The app was created in VS12 using the class wizards; somehow the source and header files wound up in Subdirectory #2. I want to create a subdirectory NEW at the same tree level as Subdirectory #1 and move some of the files in Subdirectory 2 -> Subdirectory NEW.

Although I have never tried it, I guess that I could export and import the files. Is there another way? Some file in the project that keeps track of the file's path that I could easily edit once the NEW subdirectory is created and contains the files that I want there.

Thanks,

Barry

Posted 9-Nov-14 5:59am

BarryPearlman

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-11-09T06:53:00

This is a trivial thing you could easily investigate by yourself. Here is what I would do:

I would open a the project file as a text file (with a text editor outside Visual Studio, or having the project unloaded), such as *.vcproj, *.csproj, observe where the project files are prescribed and modified the paths. Remember that all paths are written relative to the directory of a project file.

—SA