Finding out what type of project it is in Visual Studio

Question

I want to find the type of a project in visual studio. I found some information when I did research which didn't give any information on how to find the sub type of a WCF project when projecttypeGuid of the .csproj file is compared with the list present on MSDN website and in the below links. When I compare, i'm getting C# and Web application as project types but i have two projecttypeguid's that are separated with semicolon in my .csproj file, which didn't give a way to check what type of WCF project it is.

Some of the the links which I referred are :

1. How to find out what type of project I have in Visual Studio 2010

2. How do you tell the Visual Studio project type from an existing Visual Studio project

3. determine project type in visual studio

Answer 1

I think you'll find this question useful. It identifies registry keys that are supposed to enumerate the project "Types" and "Flavors", which are the first and second guids, respectively.

What is the significance of ProjectTypeGuids tag in the visual studio project file

It may be the case that you'll have to inspect a different registry key, depending on the version of Visual Studio you are using. This example uses Visual Studio version 10 (i.e., VS 2010). When I inspected a "similar" registry path for Visual Studio 12, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0, I found no Packages subkey, so the method may have changed.

If you will provide greater detail, such as the version of Visual Studio and ASP.NET, or the specific project GUID, I think we can drum up a more useful response.

Cheers!

Answer 2

I think if you go to the properties window of your project you will see the information following this image below.

Please look at the output type. It shows Class library. If your project shows windows application then the output is a Windows Application.