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Hello!

 We use currently VS2005 in the team. But I am evaluating SharpDevelop as an alternative. I was able to open the existing solution (sln) files. However, the solution contains what VS is calling "Web Sites". And Web Sites in VS do not have a project file. So, I get in the solution explorer: Project file was not found (GUI is localized in German, so the English warning might be a bit different).

 How can I open the solution in a way, that the Web Sites are displayed (with all existing files) and I am able to run the Web Site from within SharpDevelop? Best of all, I would like to share this solution between the existing VS users and the SharpDevelop users. So that we have smooth migration. Of course we share the solution via subversion and not via file system.

Thank you in advance

 Hi,

As far as I know currently SharpDevelop doesn't support, web development fully, so there might be lots of problems.

regards

Siegfried 

Web projects (file system based or .csproj based) are not supported in SharpDevelop because as was pointed out we do not support Web development. Web development is a feature we were never able to find contributors for.

Chris

I have often considered contributing on web project support.  But, since I have not familiarized myself with the #D code, I don't know how involved it would be.  (Is it necessary to make completely new ASP.NET editors or is it possible to leverage existing C# and VB editors?).  Can someone familiar with the project, point me to any pre-design documentation or ideas that have been batted around for web support so far?  I would like to get a feel for what I would be up against, before signing on.

Since #D 2 and above have gone to MSBuild project formats, I have found that I can compile existing VS.NET web projects after a little tweaking of the project MSBuild XML file.  Basically, I removed some MSBuild targets that were referring to VS.NET and used what was available under the pure Framework library for running an aspnet_compiler task.

Hi,
    I have one web site project created in VS2005. I tried to open it in SharpDevelop 2.2.1.2648, it is not loading main project, it is showing me the warning in the solution explorer as - The Project file cannot be found.
     The web site project in VS2005 doesn't contains project file (.csproj).
     Is it known issue with SharpDevelop 2.2.1.2648 ???

     Does SharpDevelop 2.2.1.2648 support ASP.NET Web Site projects with C# ??
     Please help me with this.

Thanks,
   Sanjay A.

SanjayAswale:

Does SharpDevelop 2.2.1.2648 support ASP.NET Web Site projects with C# ??

No, as you can read in Christoph's post. 

SharpDevelop can compile web application projects as they are just normal MSBuild projects (but designing web forms or debugging web applications is not supported).

Website project cannot be opened in SharpDevelop because they don't have an MSBuild file.