Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2002

Re: Can't open my VS2003 project: The project you are trying to open is a Web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL path.

kishorboddu — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:08:37 GMT

Thanks Akshaya

This is a very simple and elegant solution..works well..

Kishor

Re: Can't open my VS2003 project: The project you are trying to open is a Web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL path.

AkshayaTritiya — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:28:53 GMT

Hello All,

This happens , if WebInfo file is missing

Or even in some case , if The URL of the virtual directory does not match with the URL of the Application.

Re: Can't open my VS2003 project: The project you are trying to open is a Web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL path.

Rossoneri — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:44:46 GMT

Try this solution

http://datacogs.com/datablogs/archive/2005/01/28/209.aspx

To fix this error all you need to do is add a webinfo file. If your using VSS for source control, it's probably a good idea to add the webinfo file to SourceSafe as well as this is not done for you automatically.

If you have a project file c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Folder\fred.csproj then you need a corresponding webinfo file fred.csproj.webinfo. The contents of the webinfo file looks like this:

<VisualStudioUNCWeb>

<Web URLPath = "http://localhost/Folder/fred.csproj" />

</VisualStudioUNCWeb>
When you go to add this web project to your solution file you actually don't specify “Add Existing Project From Web”, but simply “Add Existing Project”, then browse to c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Folder\fred.csproj

Can't open my VS2003 project: The project you are trying to open is a Web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL path.

brgdotnet — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:54:27 GMT

Hello. I am using visual studio 2003. I am trying to open a visual studio 2003 project that was written a few years ago using visual studio 2003. Currently the project resides in the virtual directory named Inetpub\wwwroot.

My problem is that I am not able to open the project. When I do try and open the project, I get the following error message:

The project you are trying to open is a Web project. You need to open it by specifying its URL path.

I don't know what is going on here? Someone please help me out. Note that I have tried two different ways to open the project without any success:

1.) Opening VS 2003. In the IDE I select "File Open Project". I then select the visual studio project file for the project named "CalculateMtg.csproj "

2.) In file explorer I double click on the file "CalculateMtg.csproj "

I would really appreciate some help.