Default File Properties

Okay, apparently there aren't a lot of people who need to do this or maybe they just haven't thought about it.

When I add a file to VS (Add Existing Item or even New Item) default values are populated for Build Action, Copy To Output Directory, etc. These are different depending on the file extension. The question is, how do I add settings for a specific file type. The situation here is that I'm adding a lot of PDF files to the solution (for the purposes of version control, but they are also deployed as part of the application) and I do not want to have to change every single setting for each of a thousand pdf's - I want to do a mass add and have everything set correctly.

My guess is that someone from MS is going to have to answer this.

Thanks.

[785 byte] By [JeffLevinson] at [2008-1-10]
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Hi Jeff,

You might consider hacking the project file and modify them that way. It is xml so it should be easy to parse.

Chris. (say hi to Steve and Rich for me)

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