Source Control - Git : The current solution has projects that are located outside the solution folder

Question

User-1314494361 posted

I have a web site project developed in Visual Studio 2010 where the solution file is Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Rascal\Rascal.sln and the website files and folders are under Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\Rascal\.  This is the way Visual Studio 2010 set it up.

I work on the project now in Visual Studio 2019.  I cannot source control the project using Git. I get the error:  The current solution has projects that are located outside the solution folder.These projects will not be source controlled in Git repository.To add all the projects to a single Git repository please consolidate all projects under a single folder. 

How do I deal with this?  I have tried moving Rascal.sln to the web site folder but this did not help.  I have also tried consolidating the files into the one directory a number of ways but still no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.   

Thanks...Alan

Answer 1

User288213138 posted

Hi alan52,

This may be because some files may be located outside the solution folder. You can verify if there are no files outside the project/solution folder by checking the csproj file.

If everything seems fine it might just be some corrupted file. Remove all git related files and then reopen solution and try adding it to source control.

I have a web site project developed in Visual Studio 2010

And there is no web site project in vs2019.

Best regards,

sam

Answer 2

User-1314494361 posted

Hi Sam

Thanks for your reply.
There is no vsproj file, nor a vbproj file. The website is in visual basic.

To the extent it adds value:

The content of the Projects\Rascal\ folder is:
.nuget folder
.vs folder
packages folder
Performance1.psess
Rascal.sln
Rascal.v11.suo
Rascal.v12.suo
Rascal_.psess
Rascal_1.psess
Rascal_150917cspx
Rascal_170925.vspx

The content of Rascal.sln is:

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 15
VisualStudioVersion = 15.0.27130.2010
MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1
Project("{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}") = "Rascal", "..\..\..\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\Rascal\", "{D9E7E935-0035-4B6D-8F4E-5AD9C2B786EA}"
ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
TargetFrameworkMoniker = ".NETFramework,Version%3Dv4.6"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/Rascal"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "..\..\..\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\Rascal\"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\Rascal\"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
Debug.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "True"
Release.AspNetCompiler.VirtualPath = "/Rascal"
Release.AspNetCompiler.PhysicalPath = "..\..\..\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\Rascal\"
Release.AspNetCompiler.TargetPath = "PrecompiledWeb\Rascal\"
Release.AspNetCompiler.Updateable = "true"
Release.AspNetCompiler.ForceOverwrite = "true"
Release.AspNetCompiler.FixedNames = "false"
Release.AspNetCompiler.Debug = "False"
VWDPort = "51798"
SlnRelativePath = "..\..\..\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\Rascal\"
EndProjectSection
EndProject
Project("{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}") = ".nuget", ".nuget", "{2F1F0E2B-7516-4063-947A-E9557F4B1611}"
ProjectSection(SolutionItems) = preProject
.nuget\NuGet.Config = .nuget\NuGet.Config
.nuget\NuGet.exe = .nuget\NuGet.exe
.nuget\NuGet.targets = .nuget\NuGet.targets
EndProjectSection
EndProject
Global
GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
{D9E7E935-0035-4B6D-8F4E-5AD9C2B786EA}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
{D9E7E935-0035-4B6D-8F4E-5AD9C2B786EA}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
HideSolutionNode = FALSE
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(ExtensibilityGlobals) = postSolution
SolutionGuid = {5AF9BB6E-3B96-44CA-9CD7-C7B2ADD7424C}
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(Performance) = preSolution
HasPerformanceSessions = true
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(Performance) = preSolution
HasPerformanceSessions = true
EndGlobalSection
EndGlobal

If this helps then I would be pleased to hear from you again.

Kind regards....Alan

Answer 3

User288213138 posted

Hi alan52,

.nuget folder
.vs folder
packages folder
Performance1.psess
Rascal.sln
Rascal.v11.suo
Rascal.v12.suo
Rascal_.psess
Rascal_1.psess
Rascal_150917cspx
Rascal_170925.vspx

You can try to use git gui to source control the project.

The use of git gui you can refer to this link: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui

Best regards,

Sam