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