How can I share a content folder between multiple ASP.Net projects in studio?

Question

I would like to share two content folders ("stylesheets" and "graphics") between several asp.net projects in the solution.

Is there a way to do this and have a studio displaying graphics and so appropriate during development?

Answer 1

I looked deep into this and did not find a great solution right in Visual Studio .NET. What I ended up using was my version control system for sharing folders.

I used Subversion Externals to share multiple working copies from the same source in Subversion.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s04.html

I know there a similar concept of sharing in Source Safe and, possibly, in other version control systems.

Answer 2

I have not tried this, but I believe that if you make it a virtual folder in IIS for both websites, it will display correctly in VS (of course, this means using IIS instead of the internal VS web server).