[Feature Request] Namespace Nesting in the Tree View

[ds5678]

Currently, ILSpy always flattens namespaces in the tree view like this:

{} Top.Middle
{} Top.Middle.Bottom1
{} Top.Middle.Bottom2.EvenLower
{} Top.Middle.Bottom3

It would be more intuitive and less cluttering if there was an option to organize it like this:

{} Top.Middle
    {} Bottom1
    {} Bottom2.EvenLower
    {} Bottom3

Where Bottom1, Bottom2.EvenLower, and Bottom3 are child nodes that can be collapsed into Top.Middle.

[siegfriedpammer]

As the namespaces in metadata are just strings, how exactly would you separate "Top.Middle" from "Buttom2.EvenLower"? What are the rules?

A simple rule would be: new level after every dot, and would look like this:

{} Top
    {} Middle
        {} Bottom1
        {} Bottom2
            {} EvenLower
        {} Bottom3

But that is not exactly what you want, right?

[ds5678]

I chose my example like that because it's more vertically and horizontally concise. The idea was that an inner namespace section could be absorbed into an outer namespace section if it's the only thing the outer section contains. This is common for libraries with prefixes, for example: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.

Dividing by dots might be better because it's simpler, and therefore it's probably easier to implement and faster at runtime.

[ds5678]

Thank you