deployment - Visual Studio Setup Project with all files from a folder

Question

We have a setup project that currently adds Project Output's from different visual studio projects. We want to change the packaging system and use a folder with a bunch of deploy files that are prepared for deployment in the setup.
But this means that we need to add the files one by one, and keep adding them on each version when there are new files.
I saw in this question that we can't add files with rules like *.aspx.
So I'm considering creating a small tool that will change the vdproj file based on the files available. Can you help me with the format of this file? It seems there are some GUIDs associated with each file included.
Does anyone have a better solution on how to do this?
We're not thinking about using a different setup tool right just yet, we just look for a simple solution for the file packaging.

Answer 1

To add the entire folder, just open a windows explorer window, then drag all the files you want to add into the file system view.