Getting all project "kinds" in a install.ps1 nuget script

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I'm trying to code something in an install.ps1 post-install script for a Nuget package that depends on the project type. If it's a web project type, I want to do something different after install. So I'm looking at the $project.Kind to determine this. The problem is that when I test with a WebApi project, this always returns the wrong project kind. If you look in a newly created C# WebApi project, it has two project types listed in the element (one for Web Application and one for general C#). The $project.Kind property is returning the C# identifier...I need to see if it's a web application, so I need the first one as well. I can't find the proper call to get the list of all project types from $project:

param($installPath, $toolsPath, $package, $project)

if($project.Kind -eq {guid goes here}){do my custom thing here...}

I've looked through the available accessors on the EnvDte Project object and can't find anything that looks promising.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/envdte.project.aspx

Any ideas?

Only thing I can see that may be unique are the <Import>s. Web projects appear to include Microsoft.WebApplication.targets. Could also look for web.config. — Brad Christie
– Brad Christie, Commented Jan 29, 2015 at 2:43
Might be some useful information you can use here: mztools.com/articles/2007/mz2007014.aspx — David Brabant
– David Brabant, Commented Jan 29, 2015 at 7:09
@BradChristie if you want to put this as an answer...glad to give you the credit. — swannee
– swannee, Commented Jan 30, 2015 at 5:05

swannee · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-29 20:32:09Z

1

The solution I used was as Brad suggested...just took the low road and looked for a web config like such:

$webItem = $null;

try{
    $webItem = $project.ProjectItems.Item("Web.config")
}
catch
{
}

if($webItem -eq $null)
{
  --processing for non-web project.
}

Not very elegant, but it appears to work for my simple cases.

answered Jan 29, 2015 at 20:32

swannee

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