diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ This component adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.h
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Referencing `OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation` manually no longer visibly injects
+  instrumentation scripts into projects in an editor's solution window.
+
 #### Dependency updates
 
 - Following packages updated
diff --git a/nuget/OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation/build/opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation.props b/nuget/OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation/build/opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation.props
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9ef4d5fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nuget/OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation/build/opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation.props
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
+<!-- Hide the shipped content files VS project tree.
+     Can be removed once https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/4856 is resolved -->
+<ItemGroup>
+  <Content Update="@(Content)">
+    <Visible Condition="'%(NuGetItemType)' == 'Content' and '%(NuGetPackageId)' == 'opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation'">False</Visible>
+    <CopyToOutputDirectory Condition="'%(NuGetItemType)' == 'Content' and '%(NuGetPackageId)' == 'opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation'">Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    <CopyToPublishDirectory Condition="'%(NuGetItemType)' == 'Content' and '%(NuGetPackageId)' == 'opentelemetry.autoinstrumentation'">Always</CopyToPublishDirectory>
+  </Content>
+</ItemGroup>
+</Project>
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