Deleting a Web Project

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You can delete a Web Project and its associated Web application or just remove the project from a solution without deleting its files.

A Web application has two copies of the Web files that are managed by the Web project: local and master. In addition to deleting the project file (.vip), you can delete one or both of these copies of the application. For more information about local and master files, see Web File Processing.

To delete a Web project

1. In the Project Explorer, select the Web project you want to delete and from the Edit menu, choose Delete Project.
   
   
2. In the Delete Project dialog box, choose which copy of the files you want to delete.

   To delete	Choose
   Your local Web project (.vip) file and the local copy of the Web application	Local Web project and all associated files
   Your local Web project (.vip) file and the master copy of the Web application	Master Web project and all associated files
   Your local Web project (.vip) file and both the local and master copies of the Web application	Both the master and local Web projects and all files

   
   
3. Choose OK.

Note   If you choose to delete only the local Web project and files, you can later create a project that points to the master copy of the Web application that remains on the server.

If you choose to delete only the master copies, you also delete the local project file (.vip), but the local directory and Web application files remain on your machine.

You might want to keep your project and its associated files but remove it from the solution.

To remove a project from a solution

1. In the Project Explorer, select the Web project you want to remove.
   
   
2. From the File menu, choose Remove Project.
   
   
3. In the message, choose Yes.

   The project reference in the solution file is removed but the project file and the local and master Web files remain.