.NET Framework - VS2005: How should I go about figuring out how to fix this?

Asked By eugen_n

15-Oct-08 12:28 PM

Hello everybody,


Whenever I try opening a solution, VS is not able to open a couple of
projects.  The error type I'm getting is below:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The project file 'D:\Workspace\...\...csproj' cannot be opened.

The project type is not supported by this installation.
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OK   Cancel   Help
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The Output view gives no hint on what is wrong with this project so am
wondering where else I should look?  I'm using the exact same version of VS
2005 as the other team members.


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Thank you,  eugen

15-Oct-08 02:10 PM

Have you got the C# parts of VS installed?

Dave

15-Oct-08 03:17 PM

Yes, I have everything C# installed

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Thank you,  eugen

15-Oct-08 03:32 PM

So, what type of project is it? What's in there?
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John Saunders | MVP - Connected System Developer

15-Oct-08 06:46 PM

OK, I did figure this out.  The projects in question were created with VS
2005 that had "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF &
WPF)" installed on top of it, while my copy of VS 2005 did not have it.

Just for the archive, I did figure this out by right clicking in VS the
projects in question, picked the option that opens the project in the IDE and
have noticed that some of the XML tags had warnings as being unknown ones.
Looking those up led me to install the 2005 extensions.


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Thank you,  eugen