“Add existing item” in Visual Studio: is it possible to make “Add as link” default?

Question

As pointed out in this SO answer, the Add > Existing item dialog in Visual Studio by default displays the Add button (meaning that the selected items will be p

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no option for that. But there is silver lining. You can drag files to a project and drop them to desired folder. Files are copied to your project. If you press Alt key doing drag and drop operation, files are not copied but linked instead.