I created a windows 10 virtual box vm with Visual studio 2015 enterprise installed.
I tried to open an existing Visual Studio Website project solution in C:\sharedfolder\projectdirectory (With symbolic link) or \\VBOXSVR\myapp via virtualbox shared folder functionality, but it fails to open saying
"Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:1849/ failed with the error: Filename: \?\UNC\VBOXSVR\myapp.vs\config\applicationhost.config Error: Cannot read configuration file"
If I copy the folder to C:\Code it opens without any issues?
Any idea how I can solve this problem? I need it in the shared folder because I am using MAC OS to do javascript dev stuff, so its good to share that folder.
I tried this same solution and get the same result, I did some research and found this link that says that the shared folder shoud not be used as this
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=62120
Text from the link:
GA Shared Folders are NOT a full implementation of file share, so things will break. It is only a mean to easily access files from host to guest, no use it as a workspace location for dev programs. Use a real network share instead.