title: Add a folder structure to a Visual Studio Solution
body: <p>Is it possible to add a folder structure to Solution Items without manually adding each level of the tree?</p>
  
  <p>We have a multi project solution which requires several third-party libraries, at least one of which has a multi-layer tree.</p>
  
  <p>We have a <code>libs</code> folder at the solution root level, alongside all the other projects.</p>
  
  <p>The answers regarding Show Hidden Files, etc. don't work for solution items, only within a project.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get around this? </p>
  
  <p>Do we have to add them folder by folder if we want them at the solution level?</p>
  
  <p>(A similar question has been <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/392473/how-do-you-add-an-existing-directory-tree-to-a-project-in-visual-studio">answered</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57776/how-to-add-existing-item-an-entire-directory-structure-in-visual-studio">many</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5431605/add-folder-to-solution-explorer">times</a> regarding Visual Studio <em>projects</em>. However my question is about Visual Studio <em>solutions</em>.)</p>