In Visual Studio, how can I set the Build Action for an entire folder?

Question

I have a project in Visual Studio. I need to deploy some 3rd party files along with my code. Typically I would put this files in a \"Resources\" directory and set the Buil

Answer 1

Create the project. Add one file as Content. Unload the project and edit the *proj file manually.

 
    
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And then in the content-ItemGroup I would replace that singe file with some MsBuild wildcard expression, *.dll, or whatever.