My boss, Matt Rolak, used to work on Visual Studio (mostly on 2005). He knows a lot about the program, so he’s my go-to guy when I need to know how to do something, or have a gripe about the product.

Here’s what I learned today:

    You can, in fact, add an existing folder to a project. If that folder is in your project tree (i.e. under your project root). To add it, just click on the “Show All Files” button. You will see a shadow-y folder icon show up. Right click on the folder, and select “Include in Project”. Done. It will also add any files in the folder to your project.

I realize this is a little thing, but there have been a lot of times when I needed to do this. My solution was to rename my folder, then create a new folder, with the original folder’s name, and copy the contents of the original folder into the folder that VS created.

Hope that helps someone.