I am trying to open a solution that involves an MVC project in Visual Studio that was developed in VS 2010. After I open the solution, I get this error:
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects. The project types
may not be installed or this version of Visual Studio may not support them.
For more information on enabling these project types or otherwise migrating your assets,
please see the details in the "Migration Report" displayed after clicking OK.
The migration report contains this message:
The application which this project type is based on was not found.
Please try this link for further information:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=299083&projecttype=F85E285D-A4E0-4152-9332-AB1D724D3325
I tried the following approaches (in no particular order)
Repair VS
Run devenv /Setup in the solution directory
Delete the .user file associated with the project
Repeat of all of those steps after rebooting my computer
Install MVC 3 and create an MVC project as described in the link in the migration report. Here, the described files (e.g /Views/Web.config) don't seem to exist.
What changes do I need to make to make the MVC project compatible?
Not sure what code/config files I would need for this, but please comment on any further info that could be helpful.
I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 professional on a windows 10 laptop and I am seeing an error in all my razor views. The error says the name 'X' does not exist in the current context e.g. The name 'Html' does not exist in the current context.
From searching the internet for solutions I have tried the following but still not fixed
Run visual studio repair form control panel (uninstall programs)
Run Windows update
Checked that the references are set to copy local
Deleted my .suo file, cleaned and rebuilt
Tried fully qualified namespaces
Razor versions are 3.0 in both config and view config
Unload Reload the project
Reset all my settings using import and export settings wizard
Cleaned all packages and cleared package cache
The error looks like so
Can anyone suggest anything else apart from uninstalling and then reinstalling? Despite these errors in my views the application will still build and run in the browser with no ysod.
SIMILAR ISSUE "The name 'HTML' does not exist in the current context" in MVC 3 Views
EDIT - Using info from stackoverflow.com/questions/20422007/… if i go to project properties and make a space in assembly name and save and rebuild then it works!! However as soon as i close VS down and start it up again the issue persists
Thanks
Paul
How sure are you that this is a visual studio issue, and not related to the project? Does it work in other versions of Visual Studio? Do you have the .Net framework installed? (Ensure your project is pointing to the correct .net framework version that you have installed, which you can check in the project properties).
Is the assembly reference in question that's missing, present in the bin folder of your solution?
I deleted a Team Project from Visual Studio Online. We were using the repository in source control with Visual Studio 2013.
Since deleting it, everytime I load up Visual Studio, I get the following message in general ouput:
The server returned the following error: The project with id '{myid}' does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it.
And the following popup:
If I try to do ANYTHING source control related, I get the following error:
TF10175: The My Project team project does not exist.
I have removed the project from my "connected projects" in VS Team Explorer. I have double checked that all my workspaces don't point to this repository. I have even removed the project files from my PC and have restarted.
I found another solution, so you can avoid deleting your whole workspace.
So the problem is, that a project is deleted from visualstudio.com before it deleted from a workspace. Why this ends up so bad, is another great question?
My workaround is as follow:
Create a new project with the same name as the troubled one.
From VS navigate to Team Explorer
From Team Explore: "Connect to Team Projects"
Select Team Projects...
Choose the troubled project added to the collection in 1
Click on the project and "Configure your workspace"
Map & Get
[Optional] I had issues because I had uncommitted changes in the project. I solved this by navigation to Pending Changes and undo and or excluded them from tfs.
Now it's possible to delete the workspace.
And now that the workspace is properly deleted, the project can once again be deleted from visualstudio.com
Restart Visual Studio
I don't know if any of the above steps can be omitted, this is how I accomplished to get rid of "TF10175", if anyone have optimized the procedure please leave a comment.
I tried everything.
What eventually worked was deleting my workspace and recreating it. A very frustrating issue.
We have a standard installation of TFS 2010 with a handful of developers. We do have a number of projects with a number of branches but nothing to crazy. Frequently we will go to get the latest version of a solution and TFS will delete the project file (csproj) of one of the projects, a MVC 3 web project. Looking at the Source Control logs we see the following error:
One or more source control bindings for this solution are not valid and are listed below.
Source control bindings can be modified by selecting File, Source Control, Change Source Control from the main menu.
If we go into the pending changes view and undo the deleting of the project file everything works fine. Does anyone know what the error message means and know what it is that we are doing that is causing it?
Environment:
TFS 2010
VS 2012
SQL Server 2008
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.
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
I know this is an old question, but it is still occurring in VS 2013.
I had an old VS 2003 web application. I opened it in VS 2013 (Ultimate) and had the error message:
Could not find the server on the local machine.
Creating a virtual directory is only supported on the local IIS server
along with
The application for project is not installed.
Yes, I am upgrading, and yes, I don't have some other elements ready. Giving me errors is fine - but why are you not completing the migration/load of the project. I can't fix the other issues if you don't LOAD ANYTHING! You loaded the subprojects, and then you told me that I should choose a later .NET Framework. Great, I did that. So why didn't you just finish loading the main project and let me fix the errors?
Lots of attempts to fix this failed. My final solution, just to get the project loaded was {arrow pierces chest, dies with Arghhhhhh on his lips}...
I located the {project}.csproj file. I found the <Reference> sections. The paths to the .NET Framework components were no longer valid and referred to old versions no longer installed (yeah, upgrading, remember?). I manually changed the paths to refer to .NET Framework 4.5 components. The project still didn't load.
Then I located the {project}.csproj.webinfo file. It referred to http://localhost/{stuff}/{project}.csproj, so I just set it to {project}.csproj. No luck. Then I just renamed the webinfo file to hide it. Eureka, the project was hot!
The project loaded, I got the "You have completed the first step in converting your Visual Studio .NET 2003 web project. To complete the conversion, please select your project in the Solution Explorer and choose the 'Convert to Web Application' context menu item." Which, of course, is not present, but is present as the very last item in the Project menu. Then I got the "This action will add designer and code behind files required for converting Web site projects to Web application projects. Do you want to continue?" You bet your posterior I want to continue! And now I have a project I can actually start to fix. Thanks, Microsoft, for the informative error messages.
If your projects individually migrate fine, then create a new blank visual studio 2010 solution, and add new projects individually (right click on solution->add->existing project)
But I'm not sure that your projects will load fine individually. There are project types that require some additional software to be installed in order to be supported. The most frequent problems I face are old projects built with old versions of asp.net mvc (1 or 2) and I have asp.net mvc 3 installed...or really old projects built with asp.net ajax...In those cases, you have to install that additional software and then import project, or find a tool to upgrade that project type to a newer version.
I found a solution that worked for Visual Studio 2017.
In Visual Studio, go to Tools > Extensions and updates. At the upper-right search box, search for "integration". It should come up with Analysis or Diagnostic Tools (or similar). Click Disable, then Enable. Exit the dialog, and close Visual Studio. Relaunch and open your solution again. Your projects will still complain they can't be loaded because of incompatibilities, but now you can right-click them individually and select "Reload Project" and they should load fine.
Credit goes to Paul Potter and Paul Shaughnessy at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/216061/project-incompatible-application-not-installed.html - I just did the verification work, condensing the information, and delivery :)
Adding this answer as reference for people who landed here for missing ".smproj" file.
This issue can arise due to various project files missing. For me, it was because of ".smproj" file missing which is Project file for SQL Server Analysis Services(SSAS). I re-installed SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and restarted the Visual studio.
Originally Answered here
Sometimes the SSIS or SSAS Extension in "Manage Extension" is disabled in the settings and must be Enabled manually. And then restart Visual Studio
It happened to me as wel.
You usualy do really need only to reload project in the solution. But in some cases you maybe:
didn't install SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for VS
have to enable SQL Server Data Tools manualy in the Extensions
If you have both things settled then try to reload project again. This happened to me when I moved from VS2019 to VS2022 and extension was somehow disabled.
I am using visual studio 2019 and I was faced with this issue when I reopened my ASP.Net webform App in visual studio after modifying for install SSDT.
this problem happens when Visual studio packages will modify (Especially when SSDT will be installed).
To solve this problem you have to go to you project folder and looking for the folder that named '.vs', this folder is hidden.
Deleting these folder will solve the problem because after that when you will open your project with visual studio, it will create the folder again.
Adding this for those who face issues for SSRS projects in VS2017 from earlier version as this comes up in google search.
In Visual Studio, go to Tools > Extensions and updates. Download the below :
Microsoft Reporting Services Projects
Microsoft RDLC Report Designer
In SSIS 2017, t the upper-right search box, search Microsoft Integration Services Projects.
go to Tools > Extensions and updates.
Enable -"Microsoft Integration Services Projects"
This will help to resolve the issue re-launch the SSIS
For my case, I disabled this extension and turns out, it is needed.
Enabling it resolved my problem.
In VS2019 Before you try any of the above right click the solution and click "Resolve Errors" no kidding that made my tabular model solution being available again.
For me what worked was a variation of #vapcguy solution.
Go to #vapcguy link for Paul Potter and Paul Shaughnessy solution: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/216061/project-incompatible-application-not-installed.html - I
Follow comment on Paul Potter's post by Albert Romeo
Integration Services Plugin was disabled(as explained before: Goto Tools > Extensions and updates > and search for integration/analysis/reporting and enable application
I had to enable integration services, then reload project. I don't know why since I've been using the same SSIS project several times a week for months.