I wrote a simple little Perl script that asks you for the relative path of a project you wish to create. It then creates that directory and generates a solution file and a project file for you. These files are set up to follow the directory structure in Mike's book, which means that you don't have to deal with setting all those settings anymore. All you do is run the script, enter the path where you want the top-level directory created (including the directory name), and let 'er rip. Once it's done, just open the Solution file in the src directory.

One more thing: this script requires that you have a Perl Intrepriter (like ActivePerl) installed.

If anyone has any questions or comments, let me know.

Of course, now that I've gone through all the trouble to write this script, someone is going to show me some incredibly easy way to do in the IDE.