I have a program which I am trying to port over to WPF, so I have created a new solution in Visual Studio and am moving some code over and rewriting some other code. I am having a very basic problem with this migration process. My program contains a large number of resources, including sounds and images. These are in a "Resources" folder in the original solution. But there are many many subfolders. What I wanted to do was copy the "Resources" folder over, subfolders and all and then use the "Add Existing Items" to add the folder. But there seems to be an oversight in Visual Studio. There appears to be no way to add an existing folder to a project! I can add a new folder, or I can add an existing file. So I have to add like 50 folders by hand in Visual Studio and then add the existing files. It is extremely tedious.

Does anyone else know a better way to do this?

Thanks!

Just copy the folder in your filesystem. Then select the new project in the solution explorer and press the "show all files" button in the toolbar above. Right-click the folder, which will have appeared but will not be part of your project, and choose Include in Project.

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Just copy the folder in your filesystem. Then select the new project in the solution explorer and press the "show all files" button in the toolbar above. Right-click the folder, which will have appeared but will not be part of your project, and choose Include in Project.

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I can't believe I never knew that! Thanks that's very helpful.