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The .NET Project System for Visual Studio

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Forks: 415
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 604

Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Dec 16, 2025
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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604 open issues indexed

Support directory references or glob patterns for `<Folder>` in `.slnx` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9902 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Build requires non-public package feeds, fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dotnet/project-system#9897 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
NuGetTargetMoniker should not be reported to NuGet for restore Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

dotnet/project-system#9895 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
AggregateRelationCollectionSource.Items returns null when collection is not yet set, causing NRE in callers Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

dotnet/project-system#9889 · Opened Feb 14, 2026
LegacyDependencySubscriber discards other providers' data when one provider posts an update Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

dotnet/project-system#9888 · Opened Feb 14, 2026
Eliminate _pendingSessionState from ProjectHotReloadSessionManager Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9857 · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Debugging a WASM app opens two tabs in the browser Open

Feature-Debugging

dotnet/project-system#9830 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Potential long path issue? Open

dotnet/project-system#9823 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Reinstate ProjectLoadCheckpoint for NuGetRestoreService Open

Feature-NuGet

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dotnet/project-system#9814 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 8, 2025
ThrowingTraceListener specified in tests\Common\Test\App.config doesn't exist Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dotnet/project-system#9805 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Revert PR 9794 once debugger updated Open

Feature-Hot-Reload

dotnet/project-system#9796 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Unit tests should catch unexpected jumps in file sizes in VSIX Open

Area-Testing

dotnet/project-system#9773 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 23, 2025
"StartArguments" incorrectly displayed in launch profile editor Open

Feature-Debugging Feature-Rules/Properties Triage-Investigate

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dotnet/project-system#9766 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2025
OnceInitializedOnceDisposedUnderLockAsyncTests tests hang after updating to xunit 2.9 Open

Triage-Investigate

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

dotnet/project-system#9765 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2025
BuildAcceleration: Incorrect files copied when DisableTransitiveProjectReferences is true Open

Feature-Build-Acceleration

dotnet/project-system#9757 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Add a popup/hint asking for expected behavior when first double-clicking on SDK-style project Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dotnet/project-system#9754 · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Create dev18.0.x branch checklist Open

Area-Infrastructure

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

dotnet/project-system#9750 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Control over warnings and errors in Resource Explorer Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9740 · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Add checkpoint metadata to IProjectDynamicLoadComponents Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9723 · Opened Aug 7, 2025
"Open Containing Folder" does not work for project references/analyzers Open

Feature-Dependency-Node Tenet-User Friendly

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dotnet/project-system#9716 · Opened Jul 29, 2025
New resource editor doesn’t show existing and can‘t add new resources when opened through project properties in VB.NET Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer

dotnet/project-system#9712 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Dependencies tree should appear immediately Open

Feature-Dependency-Node Performance-Scenario-Solution-Explorer Performance-Scenario-Solution-Open Tenet-Performance Triage-Approved

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9710 · Opened Jul 17, 2025
FastUpToDateCheck does not work when CopyDocumentationFileToOutputDirectory is false Open

Feature-Up-to-date Triage-Approved

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dotnet/project-system#9706 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 9, 2025
1>FastUpToDate: Source '...\da\x.resources.dll' does not exist, not up-to-date. () Open

Feature-Up-to-date

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

dotnet/project-system#9682 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Resource Explorer creating invalid image resource Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dotnet/project-system#9664 · 1 comment · Opened May 29, 2025
Define a specific dll's Symbol Status in csproj Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

dotnet/project-system#9661 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2025
`Rule.Default` is ignored for Launch Profiles Open

Feature-Debugging Feature-Rules/Properties

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9655 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2025
cannot be changed in the project properties under General - Start object Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dotnet/project-system#9653 · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Fast Up-To-Date Check compares timestamps of inputs to the last successful build time Open

Feature-Up-to-date

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

dotnet/project-system#9651 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 1, 2025
[WebToolsE2E][Aspire] Updated Aspire version from Aspire 9.1 to 9.2. When running the project, an exception occurred: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Extensions.ServiceDiscovery, Version=9.2.0.0,'. Open

dotnet/project-system#9647 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 3, 2025
Analyzers apply to all target frameworks specified by conditional based on configuration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9639 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2025
Redefine in code using Rule and IRuleObjectProvider APIS all of the project property pages defined by the Project System in .xml Open

Feature-Rules/Properties Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9630 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 14, 2025
VSSDK projects shouldn't extract to experimental instance when running unit tests Open

Area-External Performance-Scenario-Build Triage-Investigate

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

dotnet/project-system#9628 · Opened Jan 8, 2025
Renaming a folder should rename the corresponding namespace Open

Area-C# Area-VisualBasic Triage-Approved

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9626 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 20, 2024
Files added to resource files in sub-folders using new editor are generated with incorrect path in .resx Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer Triage-Approved

dotnet/project-system#9622 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Documentation bug: Link to debugging FUDC in non-SDK projects is dead Open

Triage-Approved

dotnet/project-system#9613 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Hide "Prefer Native ARM64" Checkbox in Legacy Property Pages for .NET Framework MSTest Projects Open

Feature-Rules/Properties Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9598 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 21, 2024
Unable to add the same resource after deleting it if stored for windows forms. Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9593 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Build Acceleration can copy unused assembly reference to output directory Open

Feature-Build-Acceleration Triage-Approved

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

dotnet/project-system#9575 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2024
Cleanup duplicating targets Open

Triage-Investigate

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9565 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Make Build Acceleration support symbolic/hard links Open

Feature-Build-Acceleration Triage-Approved

dotnet/project-system#9548 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 6, 2024
Unable to debug source generator: "The project doesn't know how to run the profile '<name>' with command 'DebugRoslynComponent'" Open

Feature-Debugging Triage-Approved

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

dotnet/project-system#9547 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2024
If a non-persistent launch profile is the last debug profile used, it will visually be selected on reopening the solution but that will be a lie:) Open

Feature-Debugging Triage-Investigate

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9536 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2024
[A11Y] Resource Explorer is unusable for screen reader users Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer Triage-Approved

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

dotnet/project-system#9541 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Retrieving file from new resource file format throws System.MissingMethodException: 'Constructor on type 'System.Byte[]' not found.' Open

Feature-Resource-Explorer Regression Triage-Approved

dotnet/project-system#9526 · 15 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2024
Upgrading VS can cause projects to appear out-of-date, triggering lots of builds Open

Area-External Feature-Up-to-date Performance-Scenario-Build Tenet-Performance Triage-Approved

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

dotnet/project-system#9515 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Fast Up-To-Date Check: Build-time generated <Content/> files not copied Open

Feature-Up-to-date Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9506 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 18, 2024
Multi-repo solution with targets fails to build from Visual Studio; works from .NET CLI Open

Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9502 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 11, 2024
Microsoft.TextTemplating.targets and FastUpToDate Open

Feature-Up-to-date Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9477 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 6, 2024
Generation of Application.myapp while Visual Basic Application Framework is disabled Open

Area-VisualBasic Feature-Project-Properties-Designer good-first-issue Triage-Investigate

dotnet/project-system#9443 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 12, 2024

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