How to create a custom project system which can be run on a web browser?

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I had created a custom project system by following the walkthrough https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/cc512961.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396. It is like a console application which is running in console window. But my need is to run a custom project in web browser like MVC applications. How can I achieve it? Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Posted 1-Mar-15 18:54pm

Mathivanan KP

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Mar-15 1:20am

Not clear. What does it mean "custom project"? What does it mean, "run a project"? If you mean ASP.NET MVC application, what make you thinking that it "runs in Web browser"?
—SA

Mathivanan KP 2-Mar-15 7:40am

Hi SA, Thanks for your reply. Please see the above link which is about to create a custom Visual Studio project system. The output of that project is viewed by console window, but I want to launch web browser for display the output of the project like an MVC application.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Mar-15 8:22am

Now it's more clear, but 1) why? 2) comparison with "MVC application" is wrong. Also, what do you mean by output of the project? It that output of your application? what kind of application? or output of the build? or what? What's the purpose? You really need to explain the idea in detail.
—SA

Mathivanan KP 3-Mar-15 2:27am

Hi SA, Thanks for your update. Sorry for the inconveniences. My need is want to create a custom project system which is a web application. That should launch the web browser for debug.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Mar-15 8:44am

No problem. It looks like you have to describe the idea and main features of such system, starting with the scenario. You need to explain it for the default behavior of the application, and the project, too. It will take much more text for you to write, to make it clear. I hardly can imagine that it can be solved just by writing project templates along. I have my own project templates and know what I am talking about. But I'm not sure that I understand what you are talking about.
—SA

Mathivanan KP 4-Mar-15 0:22am

Hi SA, yeah, project template is the right way. But normal project templates have the project file with .csproj extension. But I need that project template with my own extension, for example .myproj as shown in the msdn walkthrough which I had mentioned in my question. The projects which are created using that project system should launch web browser for debugging.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Mar-15 0:36am

This is not a problem, too, everything is described under MSBuild documentation.
—SA

Mathivanan KP 20-Mar-15 23:55pm

Could you please share any link?

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-03-20T18:11:00

Mathivanan KP asked:
Could you please share any link?

Sure:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd393574.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd637714.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171469.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0k6kkbsd.aspx[^].

I must say that I pretty easily studied this documentation to create a non-standard build (in my case, it was aimed to build bigger multi-solution project which would be inconvenient for development if it was assembled in one solution). I developed custom tasks which can be built from scratch as special class libraries based on MSBuild API. Naturally, you can use incremental features of MSBuild (dependencies based on time stamps expressed in declarative ways) to guarantee that the Task tools are always built before they are used.

—SA