the application for project is not installed

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Diego picture Diego · Feb 13, 2012 · Viewed 38.5k times · Source

I'm opening a solution that was apparently built on Visual Studio 2003 (not sure, I don't know anything about it) and trying to migrate to 2010. When trying to migrate I get the message:

the application for project '' is not installed make sure the application for the project type (.csproj) is installed.

If I open each one of the single projects of the solution they migrate fine but not the solution itself.

Answer

Jeremy Swagger picture Jeremy Swagger · Jan 30, 2018

Right-click on the project file, then "Reload"

If your solution opens, but your project is showing as "incompatible", it may need to just reload. This worked for me when running an update from VS, and it did not recognize my njsproj

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