Make "projects" in global.json accept project folder path directly

[ChengTian]

Today, each element in projects of global.json should be a parent folder of your projects.

For example, you have src/WebApplication5/project.json , then src should be added to projects , instead of src/WebApplication5. If you add src/WebApplication5 as an element in global.json, we are unable to resolve it.

However, it's actually quite intuitive that I should be able to add src/MyProject to projects in global.json (based on name of the property).

As @davidfowl suggests, we should measure the performance hit before doing it.

[glen-84]

👍 How else would you reference a single project if src contains multiple projects?

[ChengTian]

@glen-84 , could you please give an example of the scenario you are talking about?

[glen-84]

@ChengTian,

If src contains multiple projects, then all[*] of those projects are included, when I may just want to include one.

[*] For some reason, right now, it's including three of my projects and excluding MyProj.Tests.

[ChengTian]

@glen-84 , thanks, I see your point. Yeah, with this change merged in, you will be able to add a specific project into global.json, without adding its peers.

[muratg]

Need to do some profiling and finish. Moving to beta6