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Nesting Files in Visual Studio

A neat trick that I’ve used a few times to help organize files in a project is nest some under a related “master” file just like an aspx file and its code-behind.  I’ve mostly done this to group some page-specific JavaScript files with the page but also to group some partial classes for a WCF service together under a single “master” file.  This is hardly new (I think I did it for the first time with a project file from VS2008 and I know it has been around even longer than that) but every once in a while it comes up in a conversation so I thought it was worth sharing.
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