I’ve got a common Layout.cshtml file that I want to share. When I add

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I’ve got a common Layout.cshtml file that I want to share. When I add

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I’ve got a common Layout.cshtml file that I want to share. When I add the file as a link in the project (via Add Existing Item > Add as Link) I get an error that it cannot be found when I run the application. If I set the build action to “Copy Always” it does copy the file to the build directory, however I still get an error that it cannot find the file (Perhaps I can somehow instruct VS to copy it to the appropriate directory?).

I came across this question: ASP.NET 2 projects to share same files however the answers are pretty complicated and ugly and right now I’m playing around with a lot of different structures and refactoring methods so I don’t want to go through some big production just to move a few different files around.

So how can I easily share these kinds of files between the two applications?

Thanks!