I am working on a large existing codebase in a variety of languages, including MATLAB and Python, which uses meson for its build.

I have created a Visual Studio makefile project for this using New Project From Existing Code, in order to be able to set up build and debug rules. This has worked fine, except…

…I didn’t include *.py and *.m among my filters of files to include when creating the project. This means searches don’t find matches in any Python or MATLAB files.

I know I can add the files individually (or even in a folder) by saying “Show all files”, selecting them in the Solution Explorer, right-clicking, and selecting “Include in Project”. The problem is there are a LARGE number of these files scattered over a large number of directories, so working through the whole project to do this will take a long time.

Is there any way to retrospectively add (say) all *.py files in the source tree in one operation?