Project structure file dependency

If you want to show a dependency of two separate files in the Visual Studio project structure, you can use a definition of a dependency between the two files in the csproj file.

Before:

Before

Set this snippet into your csproj file to create the dependency of the desired files:

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  <ItemGroup>
	  <None Update="appsettings.Development.json">
		  <DependentUpon>appsettings.json</DependentUpon>
	  </None>
  </ItemGroup>

After:

After