“Add as Link” for folders in Visual Studio projects

Question

In Visual Studio, we can \"Add as link\" to add a link to a file in another project in the solution.

Is there any way to do this for entire folders, so that an entir

Answer 1

Regarding the part of the original query to have a linked folder appear in the IDE, it is kind of possible to achieve this so there is a folder in the solution explorer with all linked files inside, instead of all the files appearing in the root of the solution. To achieve this, include the addition:

  
    
      MyData\A\%(RecursiveDir)%(FileName)%(Extension)
    
  

This will include all files from the linked directory in a new folder in the solution explorer called MyData. The 'A' in the code above can be called anything but must be there in order for the folder to appear.