Group files in Visual Studio

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I'm looking at tidying up my project layout in Visual Studio and I'm wondering if there is any hack, plugin or trick to associate an .xml file with a .cs file of the same name so they appear grouped in my solution navigator/explorer.

Similar to the way the code-behind file is associated with its aspx.

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Any suggestions welcome. Thanks

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In .NET (Core+)

<ItemGroup>
  <Compile Update="FileA.*.cs">
    <DependentUpon>FileA.cs</DependentUpon>
  </Compile>
</ItemGroup>

Note that Update is used instead of Include where files are already (implicitly) included in the project and use of Include causes compile-time "Error NETSDKxxxx Duplicate 'Compile' items were included... The duplicate items were: 'FileA.xxxx.cs' C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\x.x.x.x\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\targets\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.DefaultItems.Shared.targets"

See Is there a DependentUpon option in a .net core app?

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