Visual Studio 2015 - Adding virtual directory not possible

Question

we are running some of our sites as Web Site projects in Visual Studio. We recently upgraded to VS2015. Now we can\'t add virtual directories to new websites.

We alr

Answer 1

Alternative if you have solution file ".sln", then follow the steps:

1. Use notepad open the solution file.

2. Find the row starts with Project("{

For example:

Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "WebProject1", "WebProject1", ......

Then change it to be:

Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "WebProject1", "http://localhost:12345/WebProject1", ......

And add new property

SlnRelativePath = "C:\WebProject1\"

within ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties)

In example, the ProjectSection from

Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "WebProject1", "WebProject1", "{6D411253-734E-401A-A049-9620FC55D4FB}"
    ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
        UseIISExpress = "true"
        TargetFrameworkMoniker = ".NETFramework,Version%3Dv4.0"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/WebProject1"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "C:\WebProject1\"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\WebProject1\"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "True"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/WebProject1"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "C:\WebProject1\"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\WebProject1\"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "False"
    EndProjectSection
EndProject

become this finally:

Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "WebProject1", "http://localhost:12345/WebProject1", "{6D411253-734E-401A-A049-9620FC55D4FB}"
    ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
        UseIISExpress = "true"
        TargetFrameworkMoniker = ".NETFramework,Version%3Dv4.0"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/WebProject1"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "C:\WebProject1\"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\WebProject1\"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
        Debug.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "True"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/WebProject1"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "C:\WebProject1\"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\WebProject1\"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
        Release.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "False"
        SlnRelativePath = "C:\WebProject1\"
    EndProjectSection
EndProject