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Visual Studio 2005 cannot open .csproj files

I just installed Visual Studio 2005 on my machine. I have a C#/ASP.NET project that I created in VS2003, but when I try to open it in VS2005, I get the following error message:

The project file 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\KJI2.0\KJI.csproj' cannot be opened.

The project type is not supported by this installation.

Previously, I was using the 90-day trial version of VS2005 and I had no problems opening the file with that. Does anybody know what's going on?

Bob Learned

1) Do you want to migrate that 2003 project to 2005?

2) Here is a good article that can help:

Upgrading VS 2003 Web Projects to be VS 2005 Web Application Projects
http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/Migration/Migration.aspx

3) There are significant changes between 1.1 and 2.0, and the are tools shown in the article that can help.

Bob

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tjgquicken

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Thanks, but I guess I wasn't clear in the question.

I already migrated my VS2003 project to VS2005, using the trial software I downloaded off Microsoft's website. Everything was working fine. But the trial expired a few days ago, so I bought and installed a real version of VS2005, and now I can't open my project file without getting that error message.

tjgquicken

ASKER

Okay gardavis, let me try that out and get back to you.

tjgquicken

ASKER

I don't know what the problem was, but your solution worked.

Gary Davis

Cool. Somehow the original csproj got corrupted, perhaps by the upgrade. If you really are interested, compare the 2 csprojs and look at the differences.

Gary

Samirina

Hi,
Go to Run>All Programs>Microsoft Visual Studio 2005>Visual Studio Tools>Visual Studio Command Prompt>devenv.exe/ resetskippkgs
And press Enter.

Now, Your problem is solved.

Samirina.