How do you add a file as a link in a .NET Core library?

Question

I've added a .NET Core RC2 class lib to my solution (for fun) and the first thing I usually do is add a link to a shared GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs and edit the existing AssemblyInfo.cs down to the assembly specifics.

So I've just done "Add"->"existing item", located my file and clicked the dropdown of the add button. No "Add as Link" option.

What's the deal? How do I do this with .NET Core?

Answer 1

I don’t think the tooling supports this yet, and unfortunately, the documentation is not up to date on this yet.

However, you can get an idea on how this works from this ASP.NET Core announcement. Basically, you can add individual file paths to the buildOptions.compile.includeFiles setting in your project.json:

{
    "buildOptions": {
        // …
        "compile": {
            // …
            "includeFiles": [
                // …
                "../shared/GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs"
            ]
         }
     }
}