Add Web Project programmatically to EFP problem

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Shai - 07 May 2006 21:21 GMT

Hello,

As part of a source control management project for Visual Studio, when the
user creates a new solution it is structured as such: Solution Level / ETP
Level / Project Level.

The solution contains an enterprise template that then contains the project.
One type of project that have to fit into this is Web Project .We need to be
able to add a web project to the enterprise template level via the DTE. It is
our understanding that to do so we must first create a virtual directory for
the project.
We create the virtual directory via the CreateVDir method with this function
call:

iisMan.CreateVDir(webAddress, vDirName, projPath, false, false,
false, false, false, false, 1, "localhost")
(The code for iisMan is taken from several examples in codeproject and in
the net, if needed I can provide the code but this part is working)
When that method returns true, indicating the virtual directory has been
created, we add the web project to the enterprise template.

Uri baseUri = new Uri(webAddress);
UriBuilder projectFileUriBuilder = new UriBuilder(baseUri);
projectFileUriBuilder.Path += "/" +
projName.Substring(projName.LastIndexOf(@"\") + 1);
prjETPLevel.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(projectFileUriBuilder.Uri.ToString());

OR
prjETPLevel.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(webProject);

We have tried assigning the variable being passed into the above method with
various different values including the absolute path of the project file
(c:\test\...\webproj.cproj), the URL of the web project
(http://localhost/.../webproj) and just the name of the web project
(webproj). All of these attempts had the same result. Each raised an
“Unspecified Error”.

What is it that we need to pass to the AddFile method and can you shed any
light on the error we are getting?

TIA
Shai

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 08 May 2006 11:35 GMT

Hi Shai,

AddFromFile is not designed for add a virtual directory's URL to the
project. Usually we use the AddFromTemplate Method to add a new project to
a VS.NET solution.

Is it possible for you to add the web project file one by one via the
AddFromFile method?

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Shai - 08 May 2006 13:52 GMT

Hi Gary !
I used addfromfile since it working for all other project type.
What i'm looking for a way to do "AddExistingProjectFromWeb" since the
project exist .
What will be the best programmatically way to add existing WebProject to a
solution ?

TIA
Shai

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 09 May 2006 07:55 GMT

Hi Shai,

To add an existing web project into a VS2003 solution, you can use the
following one:

soln.AddFromTemplate("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DemoWebApplication\DemoWebApplicati
on.csproj", "http:\\localhost\NewWebApplication\", "NewWebApplication",
False)

The \NewWebApplication is the target virtual directory for the added web
project.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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Shai - 10 May 2006 06:47 GMT

Hi Gary !

We tried what you answered , but In trying to add web projects to the
enterprise template level of our solution, we are still experiencing the same
issue. Please note, we are not trying to add it to the solution level itself.
Therefore, we cannot use soln.AddFromTemplate, we need to use
prjETP.ProjectItems.AddFromTemplate, not that I know it makes a difference.
We attempted to adapt the answer we received to our problem by using

prjFramework.ProjectItems.AddFromTemplate(templatePath, projName);

“templatepath” is the full path of the web project’s template. “projName” is
name of the project, not the entire URL, although we did try that as well.
Even this way it still returned an “Unspecified Error”.

Another issue is that one of the reasons we were using AddFromFile is that
we need to add existing web projects as well as new ones. Using
AddFromTemplate we can only add new web projects.

Again we work in vs.net 2003.

TIA
Shai

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 11 May 2006 09:32 GMT

Hi Shai,

The ProjectItems.AddFromTemplate seems not work with a web project, it
cound not be used to specify a vdir URL.

We will perform research on this issue and will get back to you as soon as
possible. I appreciate your patience.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 15 May 2006 06:39 GMT

Hi Shai,

I consulted this problem with our product team, it appears there is no
general convention to add an existing web project to a projectitem object.
If I get any other workaround for the issue, we will update you.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,

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Shai - 15 May 2006 23:44 GMT

Hi Gary !
It is possible to do so via IDE , so it should be possible via
programmatically way too.
If you file/new/project the in new project dialog select from
Other projects/ETP/Visual C# Distributed Application for example. it create
a solution with ETP projects Hirarchy.
If you go to WebUIProjects node and add/Existing project from web select URL
and then .csproj . Its work fine.
So how come there is no programmatically way to do it ?

TIA
Shai

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 18 May 2006 07:40 GMT

Hi Shai,

One of the product team engineers replied me the ProjectItems.AddFromFile
would work by passing by passing the URL of the web project as the FileName
parameter. However it appears not work in my side. Except that method,
currently we haven't found another approach to this problem.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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"Ed Dore [MSFT]" - 25 May 2006 23:00 GMT

Hi Shai,

The "Add Existing Project From Web" menu item, corresponds to the
guidVSStd97:cmdidAddExistingProjFromWeb, which unfortunately wasn't
designed to accept additional arguments. Consquently, any attempt to invoke
this command, will invoke the dialog. There are no other interfaces short
of possibly the IVsProject::AddItem interface, that would allow programatic
access to do this. And accessing IVsProject::AddItem would require
access/dependencies on the VSIP Extras interop assemblies, and you'd have
to have code to programatically traverse the hierarchy to find the
appropriate hierarchy item in which to invoke the AddItem method on.

This is purely theoretical, as I've never seen anyone write a project
wizard that directly accessed the VSIP interfaces to do something like
this. And this would probably require a custom IDTWizard, as I suspect you
cannot get access to the VSIP interfaces from a jscript/vsz based wizard.

I did notice that the "Add Existing Project From Web" isn't displayed
unless I right click on the Project node. Clicking on the WebUI node,
doesn't enable this command. This basically means that the underlying
project hierarchy doesn't support nesting of additional projects off the
WebUI node.

I was however, able to programatically add an existing web project to the
Project node, by way of a simple addin that did something along the lines
of the following:

Project proj = applicationObject.Solution.Projects.Item(1);

proj.ProjectItems.AddFromFile("c:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\MyWebService\\MyWebServ
ice.csproj");

I'm fairly confident the same can be done by way of your project wizard.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what your looking for, but it seemed to
work for me when testing against a Wizard generated Simple Disitributed C#
project.

Sincerely,
Ed Dore [MSFT]

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