title: Visual Studio 2012 - How to add a file link to a file in the same project
body: <p>When I add a file from another Visual Studio 2012 project to my current project by using the 'Add As Link' option from the 'Add Existing Item' dialog. The file link is nicely created and everything is fine.</p>
  
  <p>When I repeat the same trick for an existing file in the <strong>same</strong> VS2012 project (but located in another folder) the link won't be created. Visual Studio just ignores the action. Why isn't this possible? Is there a workaround for this, so I can add file links to files in the same project? </p>
  
  <p>Background information: I want to use NuGet packages and its update mechanism, but NuGet just dumps everything in a folder structure (like the 'Scripts' and 'Content' folders), which I don't want to use. I use a 'libs' folder for external stuff. But when I move the NuGet imported files, it breaks the update mechanism, so I want to create file links (below the libs folder) to the imported files located in the 'Scripts' folder etc.  </p>
  
  <p>I already tried to manually edit the .csproj file, but than the link definitions are still ignored. The only solution I can think of is by creating another project for just the NuGet packages and add links to those imported files in my other project, but that seems to me as a bit of overkill.  </p>