Is there such a thing as a “content/data only project” in visual studio

Question

I have a bunch of ancillary XML and XSLT files that I want to edit and manage in visual studio.

The files do not logically belong under any code project in my solution

Answer 1

A work colleague has come up with a solution.

He has suggested hand editing the project to remove the DefaultTargets from the Project (and delete a load of now unused properties).

MSBuild complains if there are no targets in the project so he has added three empty targets.

The final project looks something like this

  
    Debug
    AnyCPU
    9.0.30729
    2.0
    {541463A7-7CFA-4F62-B839-6367178B16BD}
  
  
    ... files ...
  
  
    ... files ...
  
  
  
  

Admittedly, this solution requires more fiddling that I would have liked but seems to achieve what I was after: namely a project that does not aattempt to produce any build output.