How can I hide files from Solution Explorer by name in VS2015?

Question

I am writing a website in VS2015 using the ASP.NET Preview template. Unfortunately, Dropbox has added a bunch of .dropbox.attr files in each folder of my projec

Answer 1

You can modify the .xproj file of your project and add the following to exclude folders:

You can use DnxInvisibleFolder for folders and DnxInvisibleContent for files. Some folders (like node_modules) have sometimes thousands of folders/files which seem to pose a major problem for VS2015 to scan and load.