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I’ve arrived at a stage where I wanted to create my own custom Sharepoint solution using Visual Studio 2010.

When I created a new blank Sharepoint project it asked me whether I want to deploy the solution as a Sandboxed Solution or a Farm Solution.

I first selected Sandboxed Solution but then I found out that I couldn’t build and package my solution when I had a Sharepoint Mapped Folder within it.

Therefore, I needed to change the type of the deployment to Farm Solution. I looked everywhere (from Project Properties, Solution Properties, etc) and I couldn’t find the setting for it.

I tried to re-create the project and now selected Farm Solution as the deployment type and I then tried to compare the project properties manually. This included opening the .csproj file in Notepad and compared between the two apple-by-apple.

I noticed the following missing tag within the project file (.csproj) that was deployed as Sandboxed solution:

<SandboxedSolution>False</SandboxedSolution>

I added that tag to my .csproj and now my Sandboxed Solution project suddenly became Farm Solution project.

Hope this helps,

Tommy