Error: The application which this project type is based on was not found

asp.net visual-studio-2012 visual-studio-lightswitch
lawphotog picture lawphotog · Apr 8, 2013 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I installed VS2012 and tried to open a project that was developed using VS2012 as well by another developer. But I am getting an error message as below. I googled the error message and found most of MVC projects have same problem and found solutions to those. But mine isn't a MVC project. The original developer said it is a Light Switch and Entity Framework project. How can I start trouble shooting to find out what I am missing on my computer and to solve this problem?

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russds picture russds · Jan 20, 2015

This just happened to me too. I was missing "Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2013". Once I downloaded that, I had additional Business Intelligence Project types when going to File -> New -> Project that I didn't have before, and I was able to open the Solution.

So maybe compare the project types you and your developer friend have listed when you go to File -> New -> Project.

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