(updated 7/12/04 -- see below)

Damn IDE wouldn't let me open a project from a local web url (http://localhost/foo).

Downloaded source for nGallery, but couldn't open the existing project.

Even went with intern Joe's idea of starting with an empty solution, then adding the existing, but...

-- if open as normal project, says "this is a web project, you must specify it using a URL"
-- if use URL, then get another dialog that shows a "share" for that directory, but no files.

Fix: enable DIRECTORY BROWSING on the virtual directory Wahoo!!

Thanks to this thread at google!

Google Groups: View Thread "help adding an existing ASP.NET project to a solution"

Update (7/12/04)

This MSDN KB article tells about another issue where the .webinfo file has an incorrect path.

Ran into this today, when trying to open a web project (via an MSI) that was built on another computer. The .webinfo file did not exist.

Hacked it by grabbing any existing .webinfo file, modify the name to match the project name, and the simple contents to point to the correct virtual directory on my dev machine.

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