>> There has to be a way to simply create static HTML files in VS, store them in a folder and see them in a project.
>That's easy
>Create a desktop console project.
>It will let you create any kind of files you like.
>However, you won't be able to run them from IDE.
>In order to run them from the IDE you'll need all those other files you don't like.
Thank you. I will try this approach. And thanks to Viv for his input.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham