Setting correct path for Projects referenced using ProjectReferences where the Project is not part of the template

[Cjewett]

We want to create templates that have references to an existing project like so: <ProjectReference Include="......\SomeProject.csproj" />`. These existing projects are not part of the template. After installing the template and creating a new project relative paths don't point at SomeProject.csproj correctly due to the relative pathing being different based on where you created the project. I was wondering if there was a recommended way to solving this problem?

Thanks

[david-acm]

@Cjewett I was facing the same issue which I documented #7833. I opened this PR #40133 with an enhancement to support this use case. It is already approved 😃, so vote it up, hopefully the .Net team will merge it soon.

For now, the only workaround i know is to run a dotnet add [ExistingProject] reference [CreatedProject] command. You could add an error message suggesting the user to run this themselves.

[david-acm]

Btw this was approved, merged and available since .Net SDK 9.0.100.prev6