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Paul Richardson
Paul Richardson

Reputation: 205

Visual Studio Project Template *.projitems not found

I have created a visual studio template which worked fine. But as soon I try to add a new project to my solution by using this new template I get the following error:

"The imported project "c:\users\xy\AppData\Local\Temp\Common\Shared\XY.projitems" was not found. Confirm 
that the expression in the import declaration "..\..\Common\Shared\XY.projitems" is correct and that the 
file exists on disk."c:\users\xy\AppData\Local\Temp\qfuczw4e.apk\Temp\MyTemplate1.csproj"

Background info:

My solution contains a shared project which is referenced in my project template

The import statement in *.csproj of my project template looks like this:

<Import Project="..\..\Common\Shared\XY.projitems" Label="Shared" />

The error message is very confusing to me. Anybody have a hint for me?

UPDATE

The project structure in which a new project will be created with the template is as follows:

Solution_XY

   - SharedProject

   - PluginsFolder
     - Project_1
     - Project_2
     - Project_3

The projects created are located in a special project folder within the solution. So Project_1 to Project_3 need to have a reference to the SharedProject when created by the template.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1462

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 710

I was having this same problem, and there is no answer on here for it. It is caused because parameter replacement is being done in a temporary folder, as you can see. It's anyone's guess why they are checking path.

Either way, the fix is to have the CreateInPlace template data set to 'true'.

<VSTemplate Version="3.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="Project">
  <TemplateData>
    ...
    <CreateInPlace>true</CreateInPlace>
  </TemplateData>

This was a real pain to figure this out. Hopefully it will help somebody.

The problem isn't related to it being a multi project template. I solved this problem while making a multi project template.

Upvotes: 5

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