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The project type is not supported by this installation

Whenever I try to open a project (csproj) that's downloaded from the internet, most of the times, I get the "The project type is not supported by this installation"

It appears that my Visual Studio installation is not corrupted (I can pretty much do everything with it other than open these csproj files)

What may be causing this?

A: 

What edition of VS do you use? VS2008 Express, Standart, Pro or Team System? VS2010 Professional, Premium or Ultimate? I would expect that project you downloaded was created using higher edition of Visual Studio and uses some of those advanced features. Thus you can not open it.

EDIT: It is also possible that you lack some advanced frameworks like newer versions of Windows Mobile SDK, but IIRC error message in such case is different

iPhone beginner  2010-04-30 16:48:56
I use VS 2008 Development edition
 2010-04-30 18:36:06
Well, this makes first assumption much less probable as this is one of the highest editions. I agree that providing link to the project might be the greatest help. Also you could open .sln file with a notepad and check first line: what is Format Version there? I mean the project might be created with VS 2010.
iPhone beginner  2010-05-03 08:46:11
I'm getting this same error but using the latest version of Visual Studio 2010. Another machine with the same setup seems to be able to open the projects just fine. Only thing I can think of is that recently I uninstalled Visual Studio 2005. Running devenv /setup and such hasn't seemed to help at all so far.
jpierson  2010-08-12 23:46:43
A: 

Hi,

You could also try to run the following command:

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

Let me know if it helps

Muse VSExtensions

Muse VSExtensions  2010-04-30 19:59:21
No, this doesn't help
 2010-05-14 15:52:28
A: 

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs worked for me.

I had previous converted one of the Projects within the solution.

Dave

Dave  2010-10-04 23:17:30

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