Visual Studio: how to know which project type is a project

Some projects have same icon … same as Class Library icon usually.
So, it happens you can’t remember what type exactly it’s that project: it’s a Class Library project or … ?

A way to identify the exact project type is having a look inside project file (ie: .csproj for C# project) and take note of “ProjectTypeGuid” value.
These links have a list of possible project type guids:

It isn’t the simplest, but it works!

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2 Responses to “Visual Studio: how to know which project type is a project”

Karthik Reddy Chintaparthi Says:
May 25, 2012 at 11:23 am | Reply
How about a C# class library then ? I could not see the projecttypeguids tag ?
robertoschiabel Says:
May 25, 2012 at 10:42 pm | Reply
I made a test and found “FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC” is project type guid for class library;

according to this http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008017.aspx, is a Windows C# project;

language c# was official language in this test.