Why does Visual Studio only allow one link per file in a project?

Question

I would like to have a file in several different projects of a solution, however, Visual Studio only allows one link per solution to the file. Is there a way around this?

What is the issue of having several soft links to a single file within a VS project?

Update: I have added the link as described from the comments below, it seems that the issue is on a per project basis. There can not be multiple links to the same file within the project. When I attempt to add the link I receive the following error - "There is already a link to ''. A project cannot have more than one link to the same file."

Answer 1

You could create several links to one file on ONE project, but manually and VS will not show it in project tree.

unload project and add for example links:

<Content Include="..\..\_Common\js\JQuery\jquery.js">
  <Link>Sites\OrgCatalogSite\Design\js\JQuery\jquery.js</Link>
  <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>


<Content Include="..\..\_Common\js\JQuery\jquery.js">
  <Link>Sites\TasksManagersSite\Design\js\JQuery\jquery.js</Link>
  <CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</Content>

Answer 2

I am using Visual Studio 2008 Professional, and it allows the same file from one project to be soft-linked to every other project, independently of the number of solution files you are using.