I'm using Visual Studio 2013 and I have a solution that contains multiple projects.
I would like to extract one project from a solution to create a new, separate solution, that would only contain this one project.
Does anyone know how to do this?
If by "Extract", you mean "Duplicate" your project and start a new solution with this project, here is what you can do:
Create a new solution in Visual Studio
Copy your Project folder in the root of the new solution
Right click on the solution => Add existing Project and select
the project file (*.csproj in this case)
Copy the project folder into separate folder, open the .csproj file, press CTRL + S, it will open the save dialog and you will save the .sln file. That is it.
Right click on any project, then Exclude from Project. The excluded files will be in the project folder. Move those files to another folder, in the way you want it. Then you can create and add those files in new project by Add existing item
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I have 2 different projects in 1 solution but the .sln file is in one of these projects. I want the .sln file to be above them. You will understand better when you see images.
The ss of my solution explorer:
Here you can see there are 2 projects in 1 solution. Also the name of solution and one of my projects is the same here.
Here is the place .sln file is located:
I want this .sln file to be located in here above them:
How do I do that? Thank you, have a nice day
If you have existing solution with projects I think the easiest way would be to select File -> Save *.sln as and select the location you need.
Visual studio will automatically update paths to projects.
I had something like this in the old solution
Project("{FAE04... "ConsoleApp7\ConsoleApp7.csproj", "{E0C7925E..."
The new one has
Project("{FAE04... "ConsoleApp7\ConsoleApp7\ConsoleApp7.csproj", "{E0C7925E..."
Checked for VS 2017 and 2019.
P.S. The solution should be selected in the Solution Explorer, else the "Save *sln as" item doesn't appear(it will suggest to save something else).
The sln file is relatively easy to edit in any text editor.
Close Visual Studio, move the solution to where you want it, then open the solution file in a text editor. Change the references to the proj files so that the relative path is included.
Here is an example from one of mine:
In this case, each of the proj files is in a subfolder and the sln file is in the root directory.
I am new to ASP.NET and I was asked to create a portal program which will be just a part of the existing ASP.NET portal project. Meaning, it will be just like 2 web pages and will be going to be added to the existing project. The thing is I have to do it in a separate ASP.NET Project file. I have the source code of the existing main project but I am not allowed to modify this unless the pages that I will develop are completed. How can I do it? I know I just have to create a new project but what is the next step after that? How can I import the one that I made to the main project? They mention that I just have to export it as DLL but I have no idea how to do that. Please help me.
Open your new project in Visual Studio.
Open the old project in Visual Studio.
Right click the name of your new project on Solution Explorer, select Open Folder in File Explorer
Copy the 2 new pages you created
Go to the Visual Studio Instance of your old project. Click the name of the solution and CTRL + V or Right Click > Paste. (If there is a folder let's say Pages where ASPX files are located, click and paste there instead).
Your new files might not be included in the project and if its happens, click the 'Show all Files' option on the Solution Explorer.
Right click on the 2 new ASPX files and select 'Include In Project'.
I am not sure if I understood you right. If you just have to export the dll from the project that you created, right click on your solution, open the bin folder, you will see a file named yourprojectname.dll. Copy this to your target projects bin folder using the steps mentioned above.
If I understood it right, you are being asked to created a classlibrary or something and not an aspx page. Again, I might be wrong, but others can help you if you are lucid about your requirement.
Not sure how to describe my question and ok here it goes:
We already have some existing projects created and under TFS source control.
A typical project is then stored locally as:
SomeDir\SomeNameSpace.SomeName\ProjectName\
then the csproj and sln file inside that directory will be named: SomeNameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName
Now when I want to create that same setup using Visual Studio it goes horribly wrong:
I have tried all possible options on creating a project and either it creates an extra SomeNameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName folder extra under the ProjectName directory and puts the sln and csproj inside that dir or I can create a Project under the proper ProjectName dir only then the name of the sln and csproj files will be ProjectName.snl/csproj which is neither what I want.
Renaming them of course would be the logical thing to do, however, doing that causes the sln to go corrupt. When I try to reopen it will throw a Save as DevEnv.sln in my face and that is not what I want.
Edit: Of course I have renamed inside the sln and csproj file which neither led me to the solution
So how can I create a new VS2015 solution that will nicely sit under
\SomeDir\SomeNamespace.SomeName\ProjectName\ with
SomeNameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName.sln and
SomeNameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName.csproj as it's name?
What am I missing, that it seems impossible to achive this in a simple manner?
Create the Project from the New Project VS Window. The settings you need are:
Name: ProjectName
Do NOT create directory for solution
This should create the csproj and sln files in the appropriate directory.
From here, right clic on the project in Solution Explorer -> Rename -> SomeNameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName
This way, the solution reference will be updated too.
Now, rename the solution too, from Solution Explorer.
File menu, Save All. This saves both the project AND the solution.
And I think that's it.
You should in your new project window have it look like this
Please note the highlighted aria is unticked
Ok we have figured it out.
The solution as posted by A. Chiesa was almost right.
The solution, projects and namespaces need to be set.
- Rename the Solution within the "Solution Explorer" for example name it "NameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName"
- Rename the Project within the "Solution Explorer" for example also name it "NameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName"
- Go to the project properties and rename within Application the "Assembly name:" for example also name it "NameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName"
- Go to the project properties and rename within Application the "Default namespace:" for example also name it "NameSpace.SomeName.ProjectName"
Then if you are lucky, you can use Resharper to rename the namespace for all files throughout your project or you have to do it manually (depending on files count can be a very tedious job to do).
That should do it.
Thanks everyone for your input and advice.
Best regard,
Ed
We have a large server-side C# solution at work. It has multiple projects, each with its own sln file on the first layer of the application's directory. It also has a general all.sln which contains all the projects.
I have added a new project which builds successfully, but a sln file for this individual project has not been created. How can I create it in VS 2013, so it appears alongside the other sln files?
Any help at all would be appreciated. I need to do this so that the BAT file we're using has a sln file it can use.
You should create an empty solution, save it at the proper location with the proper name, and add the desired project to it.
To create the empty solution:
File > New Project >
Other Project Types > Visual Studio Solutions >
Blank Solution
I have created a project of Online Book Shop like Flipkart but now I lost my .sln file of this project, it has a database connection so how can I create a new .sln file and run my project??
I tried to make blank .sln file and want to add all files of my project but failed to do that so anyone has a solution share.....
Go to file-> New Project in Visual Studio. Then go to "Other Project Types"-> "Visual Studio Solutions". You should see "Blank Solution". Just create a blank solution. Once you have that right click on the solution and go to "Add"->"Existing Project" and select your projects.
Solutions contains projects. So you have to add projects to a blank solution.
So, first create a new blank solution. Then right click on the solution icon and select Add existing project. Then browse to the project folder and select the .*proj file.
Finally check if any external reference is missing, and add it to the project references.
At this point you should be able to build the solution.