Visual Studio Solution Template

I'm building a Visual Studio solution template. That's a template that you can select when you chose "New Project" that will build the default solution with multiple projects in it. Sadly, there's little support for this, file and project templates are easy, multi-project templates are a lot of "Notepadding" obscure config files and rezipping them into installers. Anyway...

My problem is that my solution builds fine, but all my projects are put into an extra folder:

Solution1
+ Solution1.sln
+ Solution1
+--Project1
+--Project2
+--Project3

What I would like to have is:

Solution1
+ Solution1.sln
+ Project1
+ Project2
+ Project3

What I can chose when creating a new solution is the top folder. But the projects will always be put into this subfolder. This does not happen with normal templates, like creating ConsoleApplication1. Those will look like the second example.

I already tried all "create new folder" options on both solution and project templates but that changed nothing. Googling for "solution folder visual studio template" yields tons of stuff, but nothing helpful.

Any clues, links, suggestions will be appreciated :)

Found "a" solution. Although I can image the "wtf" face of the next guy looking into this project...

When creating a new solution and project manually, there is a check box in the project type selection dialog that says "Create directory for solution". I believe you need to be unchecking this check box (I don't know how to do that with a template but maybe this gives you a hint).

Honestly, I like the symmetry of all the projects in the solution having their own folder, and not having one "special" one that for some reason lives at the root.

If you uncheck this checkbox, you just get rid of the top folder and end up with this:

Solution1.sln
Solution1
+-Project1
+-Project2
+-Project3

Which is even worse :( However, the solution was to do exactly that and then move the solution file into the Solution1 folder, which then has the structure I want... as I said, I hope nobody looks into it again.

Is it possible for you to share the template, nvoigt?