visual studio .net ide: Hi,
I'm using VS.Net 2003 and I have a question (or if the answer is "no
way", consider this as a feature request for the next version).

When a user tries to open or create a new project (non-web) the IDE
suggests as default folder "Visual Studio Projects" under MyDocuments.

In most cases this is OK, but when you have a mixed solution - with both
web and non-web projects, it's kind of annoying, as all web projects are
put under wwwroot.

So, the question is: is there a way to make "Start a new web project" to
create the corresponding virtual directory under IIS Default web site,
but to link it to a different local folder, lets say under Visual Studio
Projects?

That way, if in some solution I need to use (reference) an existing
project, I do not have to browse back to MyComputer, C:\inetpub\wwwroot,
but I can directly open the project from the default directory for all
projects?

I have manually moved the content of \inetpub\wwwroot\MyProject to
MyDocuments\VisualStudio Projects\MyProject, and then deleted the
virtual directory and created a new one, with the same alias, but linked
to the newly created folder. Now if I try to open the project from the
new folder, it works OK. So the idea is to achieve this behaviour
without all these additional steps.

If this is not possible, is there a place where I can post it as a
feature request, or some of the guys monitoring this group can forward
it to dev team?

Thanks

Hi Sunny,

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I am afraid there is no such way in VS.NET 2003, but this concern is being
considered in VS.NET 2005(Whidbey), the Whidbey will ship with its own
lightweight Web Server, so you can create your web project in any local
directory of your working machine...
http://weblogs.asp.net/gad/archive/2003/10/28/34228.aspx


Thanks for your understanding!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Thanks for the info Gary.

Sunny

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