Handle Web Site project

[r-pankevicius]

ASP.NET web site project is a folder, not project file, project type Guid is E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A.

VisualStudioSolutionUpdater fails handling web site solution file with a message like:

Bad Solution C:\Dev\BlahBlah\Webs\MyWebSite.sln Error Access to the path 'C:\Dev\BlahBlah\Webs\MyWebSite' is denied.

To fix this, in SolutionUtilities.GetProjectsFromSolution() ignore project type SolutionProjectType.WebProject the same way as you do with SolutionProjectType.SolutionFolder.

[r-pankevicius]

That needs more investigation: not exclude web site project but instead track it's references to other projects.

[aolszowka]

Would it be possible for you to provide or tell me how to create such a project? (I do not have a copy of one). How would one be created "normally" (IE within Visual Studio)? I do see some references in unit tests like this one here: https://github.com/microsoft/msbuild/blob/e70a3159d64f9ed6ec3b60253ef863fa883a99b1/src/Deprecated/Engine/Shared/UnitTests/SolutionParser_Tests.cs

One possible solution (if I would ignore the entire project) would be to do this:

internal static IEnumerable<string> GetProjectsFromSolution(SolutionFile solution)
{
    HashSet<SolutionProjectType> excludedSolutionProjectTypes =
        new HashSet<SolutionProjectType>
        {
            SolutionProjectType.SolutionFolder,
            SolutionProjectType.WebProject,
        };

    return
        solution
        .ProjectsInOrder
        .Where(project => !excludedSolutionProjectTypes.Contains(project.ProjectType))
        .Select(project => Path.GetFullPath(project.AbsolutePath));
}

But your next comment seems to indicate that it might be nice to chase down those dependencies (which I agree with).

[r-pankevicius]

This is how to create such project (it's called ASP .NET Web Forms Site).
Normally today people do not create such web sites, they can be found as legacy.