Yes, you can add them belonging to the solution and not to a project:
In Solution Explorer, select the solution, right-click Add -> Add Existing
Item... the item is added to a new "Solution Items" node.

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Andy Fish - 22 Sep 2004 15:23 GMT
thanks for the quick reply
I would have preferred to be able to have subfolders to match the directory
structure, but this is better than nothing
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Steve McLellan - 22 Sep 2004 18:55 GMT
You can also create a project and exclude it from all solution
configurations in configuration manager, then it will never get built
automatically (though you'll have to avoid asking it to build).
Steve
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