Visual Studio Web Projects and Source Code Repositories

In setting up repositories for use with Visual Studio, I want
developers to be able to work only from within their sandboxes on the
code they checked out from a repository. Everything works except for
web projects. When I open a web project from a sandbox, Visual Studio
reports:

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

I don’t want the developer to have to setup IIS on their local machine
to enable the editing of web projects – I want to configure Visual
Studio to directly open and compile web projects as they are only from
a developer’s sandbox. The application’s system dependencies, anyway,
require all the binaries to be copied to a test server for anyone to
be able to run and check their work.

I heard it is possible to bypass IIS by enabling web sharing on a
sandbox’s folder. I did this by clicking properties, selecting Web
Sharing, and chosing “Share this folder” and giving the same alias
name as the virtual folder name IIS uses on the test server.

Despite doing this, I still get the Web Project error. What am I
doing wrong?

Here’s my current configuration of the solution, project, and files in
the sandbox, any help would be much apprecieated:



Sandbox:

G:\MySandBox\MyWebApp.sln
G:\MySandBox\MyWebApp.csproj.webinfo
G:\MySandBox\MyWebApp.csproj
G:\MySandBox\default.aspx
G:\MySandBox\default.aspx.cs
G:\MySandBox\default.aspx.resx
G:\MySandBox\Global.asax
G:\MySandBox\Global.asax.cs
G:\MySandBox\Global.asax.resx



MyWebApp.csproj.webinfo:

<VisualStudioUNCWeb>
<Web URLPath = file:\\MyWebApp.csproj />
</VisualStudioUNCWeb>



MyWebApp.sln:
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 8.00
Project(“{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}”) = “MyWebApp”,
“MyWebApp.csproj”, “{DB706866-A668-BD49-9501FCC23690}”
ProjectSection(ProjectDependencies) = postProject
EndProjectSection
EndProject


Thanks in advance, Andy
.

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