Phil Haack's latest on creating a sane build process is interesting. I've been using a technique for some time now that bypasses this technique, however, and thought I'd share. Essentially, you get Visual Studio to copy files to your output directory on compile.
A recent project involves processing EDI documents, so it'd be nice if my unit tests include an actual EDI file or two to test against. To facilitate this, I've added a couple of EDI files to the project (and thus, to source control). Once added, I can set the "Build Action" property to "Content" and the "Copy to...