Inclusion of files in Visual Studio projects

Question

Good evening. I wonder if it is possible to include a file in a Visual Studio project by programming at runtime ?

Answer 1

Try doing it this way:

var p = new Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project(@"C:\MyFolder\MyProject.csproj");
string strNewItem = @"C:\MyImages\IMG_20180926-WA0017.jpg";

if (p.Items.FirstOrDefault(x => x.EvaluatedInclude == strNewItem) == null) 
{ 
    p.AddItem("_img", strNewItem);
    p.Save(); 
}

Get the project and then validate if the file you want to include does not yet exist, in which case you add it to the folder _img and save the project.

Indication given by the user Ray Carneiro.

Need to reference Microsoft.Build.dll.