Update the Project Type in Visual Studio

When working against SharePoint or any other platform, you need to create projects for custom type like WSPBuilder project or Workflow project as they provide us with nice tools to compile and build the packages with one click. Problem with these projects are that they do not allow you to added web controls (usercontrols and aspx page). To overcome this issue you will need to update the project to be of different or multiple type. Here is the list of well know project types and their respective GUIDS:

Project Type Description	Project Type Guid
Windows (C#)	{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}
Windows (VB.NET)	{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}
Windows (Visual C++)	{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}
Web Application	{349C5851-65DF-11DA-9384-00065B846F21}
Web Site	{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}
Distributed System	{F135691A-BF7E-435D-8960-F99683D2D49C}
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)	{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)	{60DC8134-EBA5-43B8-BCC9-BB4BC16C2548}
Visual Database Tools	{C252FEB5-A946-4202-B1D4-9916A0590387}
Database	{A9ACE9BB-CECE-4E62-9AA4-C7E7C5BD2124}
Database (other project types)	{4F174C21-8C12-11D0-8340-0000F80270F8}
Test	{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB}
Legacy (2003) Smart Device (C#)	{20D4826A-C6FA-45DB-90F4-C717570B9F32}
Legacy (2003) Smart Device (VB.NET)	{CB4CE8C6-1BDB-4DC7-A4D3-65A1999772F8}
Smart Device (C#)	{4D628B5B-2FBC-4AA6-8C16-197242AEB884}
Smart Device (VB.NET)	{68B1623D-7FB9-47D8-8664-7ECEA3297D4F}
Workflow (C#)	{14822709-B5A1-4724-98CA-57A101D1B079}
Workflow (VB.NET)	{D59BE175-2ED0-4C54-BE3D-CDAA9F3214C8}
Deployment Merge Module	{06A35CCD-C46D-44D5-987B-CF40FF872267}
Deployment Cab	{3EA9E505-35AC-4774-B492-AD1749C4943A}
Deployment Setup	{978C614F-708E-4E1A-B201-565925725DBA}
Deployment Smart Device Cab	{AB322303-2255-48EF-A496-5904EB18DA55}
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)	{A860303F-1F3F-4691-B57E-529FC101A107}
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)	{BAA0C2D2-18E2-41B9-852F-F413020CAA33}
SharePoint Workflow	{F8810EC1-6754-47FC-A15F-DFABD2E3FA90}
XNA (Windows)	{6D335F3A-9D43-41b4-9D22-F6F17C4BE596}
XNA (XBox)	{2DF5C3F4-5A5F-47a9-8E94-23B4456F55E2}
XNA (Zune)	{D399B71A-8929-442a-A9AC-8BEC78BB2433}
SharePoint (VB.NET)	{EC05E597-79D4-47f3-ADA0-324C4F7C7484}
SharePoint (C#)	{593B0543-81F6-4436-BA1E-4747859CAAE2}
Silverlight	{A1591282-1198-4647-A2B1-27E5FF5F6F3B}

 

In order to update the project type guids follow these steps:

1) Open up Visual Studio, right click the project in the solution explorer tab.

2) Choose “Unload Project” from the menu. Once the project is unloaded right click the project again and choose “Edit projectname.csproj” .

3) Find the “ProjectTypeGuids” element in the file and append the project type guids that you wish to include:

<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>

 

Note: Each guid is separated by “;”.