Common Files in Visual Studio Solution

Question

Many times I have seen Visual Studio solutions which have multiple projects that share source files. These common source files are usually out in a common directory and in the

Answer 1

Thanks @aku!

I knew this could be done, but I didn't know how to do this from Visual Studio. It shows up as a shortcut to the file and the csproj file generates the resulting XML like this:

  CommonAssemblyInfo.cs

I've seen this technique commonly used for common AssemblyInfo files to keep a consistent version.