Solution Items

I recently discovered that you can right click on the solution in Visual Studio in the solution explorer panel, you can add items that will be kept in the root directory. So in my case, I have an application which will consist of a questionnaire and a tracking application. I removed the web.config from each project and instead added one config to the solution items. My directory now has the main Root folder (let's call it ResearchStudyName) inside which is the config, and a generic error page I added called error.htm, and inside ResearchStudyName are 2 directories, Questionnaire and Tracking.

Now in order for the needed files to be there upon publish, I add them as linked files to each project by using Add > Existing Items whereupon I navigate to the files in the root dir, and drop down the Add button to change it to Add as Link.

All done!