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What is the significance of the ProjectTypeGuids tag in a visual studio project?? When I created a WPF application, i am seeing two GUIDs in here.
{60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}** Does these represent WPF and Windows type of applications?
If I create my own project type (.myproj) that has .xaml and .cs files, what should I fill in this ProjectTypeGuids tags? Should I also need to fill the ProjectType tag?
It would also be better if someone differentiate the ProjectType and ProjectTypeGuids*tags.
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ProjectTypeGuids is used by Visual Studio for project aggregation. In your example you have a WPF (represented by 60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548) C# project (represented by FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC).
If you want to know if it's a WCF Project or ASP.NET Web Service simply open your project's folders in File Explorer. You can hover over the icon with your mouse and a tooltip will display the project type as shown in the picture. Also, you can look under the Type column in File Explorer and it shows it there as well.
{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC} is the GUID for C# project{60dc8134-eba5-43b8-bcc9-bb4bc16c2548} is for project in WPF flavor packageSo your ProjectTypeGuids is for a WPF C# project.
You could see the meaning of the different GUID in the register :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Projects for ProjectTypeGuidsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Packages for packages reference by some project Windows (C#) {FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC} Windows (VB.NET) {F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F} Windows (Visual C++) {8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942} Web Application {349C5851-65DF-11DA-9384-00065B846F21} Web Site {E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A} WCF {3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699} WPF {60DC8134-EBA5-43B8-BCC9-BB4BC16C2548} XNA (Windows) {6D335F3A-9D43-41b4-9D22-F6F17C4BE596} XNA (XBox) {2DF5C3F4-5A5F-47a9-8E94-23B4456F55E2} XNA (Zune) {D399B71A-8929-442a-A9AC-8BEC78BB2433} Silverlight {A1591282-1198-4647-A2B1-27E5FF5F6F3B} ASP.NET MVC {F85E285D-A4E0-4152-9332-AB1D724D3325} ASP.NET MVC 4 {E3E379DF-F4C6-4180-9B81-6769533ABE47} Test {3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB} Solution Folder {2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8}
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