List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs

Introduction

There isn't an easy way to change the type of a project in Visual Studio project once it is created; for example, changing a C# Class Library into a Portable Class Library (PCL). Knowing these GUIDs will allow you to edit project files like .csproj and .vbproj to easily change a project type in cases where Visual Studio will not allow using the GUI.

1. You will find these properties as a <ProjectTypeGuids> element in the project file, not to be confused with <ProjectGuid> which is a unique identifier for your project.
2. Some GUIDs are used in combination. For example, <ProjectTypeGuids>{EFBA0AD7-5A72-4C68-AF49-83D382785DCF};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids> describes a Xamarin.Android library in C#.

Notice

The list is now being maintained by JamesW75 on Github.

History

• 3^rd February, 2014 – Original publication
• 16^th April, 2014 – Added Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Mono for Android; removed duplicates; added notes
• 28^th April, 2014 – Added Solution folder, thanks to imagiro
• 19^th June, 2014 – Added Windows Phone 8/8.1, thanks to ddsoft
• 20^th July, 2015 – Added MVC 5
• 14^th August, 2016 – Added Project folders, thanks to pschimmel
• 28^th March, 2023 – Moved to Github and maintained by JamesW75