In attempting to add a plain Jane .html page in Visual Studio, I found the option for .html comically hard to find.

I right-clicked in the Solution Explorer and picked "Add" from the menu that appeared and "New Item..." from the menu that unfolded below that. I found the .html option under "Markup" under "Web" under "Visual C#" and I spent ten seconds searching so that merits spending a minute or three on this blog posting right?