When making a installer (using Visual Studio Installer) I am getting rather tired of having to manually delete hundreds of individual files every time my application changes.
It boggles my mind that Visual Studio doesn't seem to let you do a recursive delete - instead insisting that every file from every subfolder is deleted in turn. For my project this means I either;
a) Have to spend hours deleting files from the filesystem view.
b) Recreate the installer project each time.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there a workaround people use for this stuff? Sorry if this has been posted before, cant seem to find the right keywords if it has - I certainly find it hard to believe no one else ever needs to remove folders from the filesystem.
What is the accepted best method for removing folders with lots of files?
edit
To be clear; This isn't a real file system. I can deleted real files of my hard disc without problems. This is Visual Studios impression of a file system. Removing the real files does not remove reference to them, and instead will just produce more errors telling me the files are missing.