which are the differences between open project/solution and open website in Visual Studio?

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Eg. opening a website as a project or open a project as a website. Are there any differences between this two options?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '11 at 13:00

Open project / solution will open a .csproj file which contains a list of the files included in your projects, among other settings. Website is just a folder with files / subfolders in it. You can't control which files are included , it just take the whole base directory content.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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They are different project types and are treated differently by visual studio. You can see the differences here:

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answered Jul 15 '11 at 12:58

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 15 '11 at 12:58

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It's the difference between a web project (aka web application) and a website.

A website in visual studio doesn't have an associated project file - it is just a collection of directories and files. Everything in it is part of the site.

See on MSDN.

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no - both have a project file, just if you open it as website and not save it in a know path, is going to be saved on default project path. But both have project file to remeber many thinks... – Aristos Jul 15 '11 at 13:01

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 15 '11 at 13:01

Open Website: Here you do not need to create a associated solution file.

Open Project Here you can create a solution and in one solution can add many projects or websites. when you open solution then it will load all projects and websites that are included in solution.

which are the differences between open project/solution and open website in Visual Studio?

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