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Nikhil Agrawal
Nikhil Agrawal

Reputation: 48568

What is a .psproj file?

I cloned a repo and in it I got a .psproj file. I tried opening in Visual Studio 2017 (since notepad++ showed it contained xml much like VS Solutions). In VS also it opened showing internal xml and not as a proj/solution file. Same outcome with VS Code.

So my question is

  1. What is a psproj file?
  2. Since it was contained in a PowerShell folder, so is my assumption correct that it is a powershell project file?
  3. What is the IDE to view these projects?

The file's contents:

<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>6CAFC0C6-A428-4d30-A9F9-700E829FEA51</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <RootNamespace>MyApplication</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>MyApplication</AssemblyName>
    <Name>Bootstrapper</Name>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
    <DebugType>full</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>true</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE</DefineConstants>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup />
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Script.ps1" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
  <Target Name="Build" />
</Project>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3804

Answers (2)

Vanda Paladino
Vanda Paladino

Reputation: 101

It's a powershell project file, but not for Visual Studio, it's for Powershell Studio. The powershell projects for visual studio are .pssproj. It took me forever to figure this out because everyone here was too busy arguing about whether this was a valid question to pro

Upvotes: 10

Nikhil Agrawal
Nikhil Agrawal

Reputation: 48568

Ok so going by the comments on questions, it is a powershell project file.

To enable your VS to understand such files, one needs to install respective extension to your VS2015 or VS2017 or VS2013

Nice article on this is here

Upvotes: 5

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