Visual Studio 2012 include files and folders in pr

Question

I made a bunch of changes to a folder. I

• checked the whole folder out from TFS 2012 (removes read-only flag)
• then copied my changes (many files in many different folders) to the working copy, overwritting existing files
• tried to include all new files into the project

But I failed on the last step. For "Include in project" I need to select the target files oder folders, but this is no option, too many files in too many folders. Is there some way to do it efficiently, without going through every folder and looking for new files manually?

Answer 1

This is what I did now: I

• removed all files and folders in my project
• copied the new files and folders to their target location
• enable "Show all files" in the Solution Explorer
• include the copied files and folders

Now I have the correct files and folders in my solution, BUT I lost my version history on them (ok, they were mostly images with no edits on them).