Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Visual Studio Projects - Project Type GUIDs


Visual Studio projects have a project type (in some cases more than one type) and it is identified by a unique GUID. This GUID is generally available in the project file. But in projects like Web Site projects which do not have a project file; this GUID is stored in the solution file.

A list of known project type GUIDs are as follows:


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}

Disdivibuted System
{F135691A-BF7E-435D-8960-F99683D2D49C}

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
{60DC8134-EBA5-43B8-BCC9-BB4BC16C2548}

Visual Database Tools
{C252FEB5-A946-4202-B1D4-9916A0590387}

Database
{A9ACE9BB-CECE-4E62-9AA4-C7E7C5BD2124}

Database (other project types)
{4F174C21-8C12-11D0-8340-0000F80270F8}

Test
{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB}

Legacy (2003) Smart Device (C#)
{20D4826A-C6FA-45DB-90F4-C717570B9F32}

Legacy (2003) Smart Device (VB.NET)
{CB4CE8C6-1BDB-4DC7-A4D3-65A1999772F8}

Smart Device (C#)
{4D628B5B-2FBC-4AA6-8C16-197242AEB884}

Smart Device (VB.NET)
{68B1623D-7FB9-47D8-8664-7ECEA3297D4F}

Workflow (C#)
{14822709-B5A1-4724-98CA-57A101D1B079}

Workflow (VB.NET)
{D59BE175-2ED0-4C54-BE3D-CDAA9F3214C8}

Deployment Merge Module
{06A35CCD-C46D-44D5-987B-CF40FF872267}

Deployment Cab
{3EA9E505-35AC-4774-B492-AD1749C4943A}

Deployment Setup
{978C614F-708E-4E1A-B201-565925725DBA}

Deployment Smart Device Cab
{AB322303-2255-48EF-A496-5904EB18DA55}

Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)
{A860303F-1F3F-4691-B57E-529FC101A107}

Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
{BAA0C2D2-18E2-41B9-852F-F413020CAA33}

SharePoint Workflow
{F8810EC1-6754-47FC-A15F-DFABD2E3FA90}

XNA (Windows)
{6D335F3A-9D43-41b4-9D22-F6F17C4BE596}

XNA (XBox)
{2DF5C3F4-5A5F-47a9-8E94-23B4456F55E2}

XNA (Zune)
{D399B71A-8929-442a-A9AC-8BEC78BB2433}

SharePoint (VB.NET)
{EC05E597-79D4-47f3-ADA0-324C4F7C7484}

SharePoint (C#)
{593B0543-81F6-4436-BA1E-4747859CAAE2}

Silverlight
{A1591282-1198-4647-A2B1-27E5FF5F6F3B}

8 comments:

Unknown said...

E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401

what is the project type for above guid?
{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}

Prasad Sampath Wickramasinghe said...

{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401} is for ASP.NET MVC 3. Please have a look here for more information. http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/mvc3-release-notes

Kamiccolo said...

One small addition:
{2150E333-8FDC-42A3-9474-1A3956D46DE8} is for Solution Folder Project. Usually it's name is the same as Project name, which is provided instead of *.vcproj filepath.

Joymon said...

Thanks very much for spending time to list down the project types.

Does Microsoft provides any list like this?

Dnyati said...

I can see what is the type of project for below GUID: {8A2650DF-E7E7-47EA-9F5F-200529A47663}
{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}

Thanks

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