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Asked: 2026-05-23T09:58:31+00:00

I need to compress a Visual Studio 2010 Solution into zipped folder, so I

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I need to compress a Visual Studio 2010 Solution into zipped folder, so I can transfer it over email.

I have done this before, but for some reason, when I just tried it, and tested reopening the zipped solution, I get the following

*C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp3_WcfServiceConsole.zip\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole.csproj:
error : Unable to read the project file ‘WcfServiceConsole.csproj’.

C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp3_WcfServiceConsole.zip\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole.csproj:
The project file could not be loaded. Could not find a part of the path ‘C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp3_WcfServiceConsole.zip\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole\WcfServiceConsole.csproj’.

I can’t figure out why it would be doing this?

Is there another way I can zip up the solution correctly so that this doesn’t happen?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It is pretty nice that Windows Explorer lets you look into a .zip file as though it is a directory. That’s where the buck stops though, there is no .zip archive support built into Visual Studio.

    You have to unzip the archive first.

    To avoid a mistake like that in the future, switch Explorer to Programmer Mode. Start + Run, explorer.exe. Organize, Folder and Search options, View tab. Untick the “Hide extensions for known file types” checkbox.

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