Once every few weeks I find myself wrestling with these foul beasts. And each time, I find the following phrase echoing in the empty space between my ears.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

I have been making every attempt to avoid dealing with them. For the most part, a series of NAnt scripts have insulated me. But now and then I need to get one working for the sake of helping one of the many lost souls who depend on them.

Last time, I took screenshots.

The first step was to try to add the project to a solution.

It wants me to enter the URL of the project, so far so good…

Now we have the first sign of trouble. The URL bit appears to have punted to a standard file open dialog.

I faithfully yet skeptically select the file, but I have the sinking feeling of having been here before.

Ah yes, I remember now.

So there you have it: web projects are an ouroboros; they are a maddening riddle, answered only by another question.

Tags: .NET, Angry, ASP.NET, WTF

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