Good news, we've got a major update to the MGI Solution Explorer. You can now create custom solution items, which allows us to do cool thinks like create self extracting zip, or help deploy your solution.
Check out our MGI Solution Explorer 2.0 article for more info!
If you're at NI week, be sure to checkout the presentation by Brandon Steele on Thursday (1:30 in room 16B). He'll be covering the Solution Explorer as well as some other tips for developers of large application (like Monitored Actor, Class Method Browser and Actor Framework Message Maker)