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Adding a project to a solution file manually

16 Jan 2018

To add a project to your solution manually, you need to do two things:

  • add the project itself
  • add the project to the ProjectConfigurationPlatforms

Adding a project to a solution

  1. Add the project itself
Project("{project type GUID}") = "<Project name>", "<project file location>", 
    "{<Unique project GUID>}"
EndProject

Yvan Rodrigues was nice enough to post the entire list in 2016 online for us! You can find it here

  1. Add the project to the ProjectConfigurationPlatforms
{<Unique project GUID>}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
{<Unique project GUID>}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
{<Unique project GUID>}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
{<Unique project GUID>}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU

Example

This is an example of a F# library project being added to the solution. As far as I can tell, it is not required that the GUIDs are in uppercase, it is just my personal preference.

  1. Project 
    Project("{F2A71F9B-5D33-465A-A702-920D77279786}") = "QuizBot", "src\QuizBot\QuizBot.fsproj", "{4A0B663D-C0C3-491F-9B07-2DACE25DB816}"
EndProject
  2. ProjectConfigurationPlatforms 
    {4A0B663D-C0C3-491F-9B07-2DACE25DB816}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
{4A0B663D-C0C3-491F-9B07-2DACE25DB816}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
{4A0B663D-C0C3-491F-9B07-2DACE25DB816}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
{4A0B663D-C0C3-491F-9B07-2DACE25DB816}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU