Deployable content in a Visual Studio 2005 project... how?

Answer 1

I usually copy additional files to output using Post-Build event, but your excellent question made me question my ways. I found that if you right-click on item and choose properties, a different dialog shows up, which allows you to specify what operation to perform during the build. However, I was not able to create a behaviour similar to what you want using standard windows commands. So you likely would need to write your own program to copy files to output.