Microsoft 365 Agents Playground project is missing

[rvinothrajendran]

Describe the bug
The Microsoft 365 Agents Playground project does not appear when creating a Weather Bot project in Visual Studio 2022

To Reproduce
Create a new project using the Microsoft Agent 365 template and choose 'Weather Bot' as the project type.

Expected behavior
Microsoft 365 Agents Playground project must be create.

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🤖 AI-Generated Preliminary Analysis:

This is a known issue when creating a Microsoft 365 Agent (Weather Bot) project in Visual Studio 2022: the Microsoft 365 Agents Playground project may not appear as expected.

Workaround:

• When creating the project, do not select "Place solution and project in the same directory." This option currently prevents proper creation of dependent projects like the Playground.
• Use separate directories for the solution and project. After doing this, the Playground project should appear correctly.

Reference:
See GitHub Issue #14098—toolkit maintainers have acknowledged the bug and are working on a fix.

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[qinzhouxu]

Hi @rvinothrajendran, could you help providing more details about launchSettings.json, the screenshot of visual studio startup options, and the extension version you are using? If you are creating an "Weather Agent" project, there should be pre-configured option in launchSettings.json like below:

[rvinothrajendran]

@qinzhouxu This issue is related to #14202. I’ve just tried the suggested workaround, and it’s working as expected