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.

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

 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.

Thanks Akshaya

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

Kishor