Thursday, January 14, 2010

cannot be opened because its project type (.csproj) is not supported by this version of the application.

From past few weeks whenever I tried to open any download code sample it gives me error

""cannot be opened because its project type (.csproj) is not supported by this version of the application.
To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project."

I am using Visual Studio 2008 with SP1.

Finally today I got the solution and it works fine for me .... :) Might be it will be a bug for VS-2008 :(

Here is the solution for it.

Go to Start> All Programs > Visual Studio 2008 > Visual Studio Tools > Click Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt. Type the below command and press enter.

devenv.exe /resetskippkgs

It opens Visual Studio 2008 IDE and finally everything was OK .

Cheers by

Anand Ranjan Pandey

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

gr8. Thank you.

It helps me !!!

Suresh said...

Hey,
I have a project and when I am trying to open .csproj cannot be opened.

The project type is not supported by this installation.

I have implemented what you said but still it is not opening.

Is there in any other way to open the project

Anonymous said...

Works with Visual Studio 2010 as well. Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thanks it works.

Unknown said...

Marvellous - saved me mucho time - than you very much and yes works for VS 2010 as well.

Anonymous said...

Gr8... Thank you so much..

kalai said...

thank you very much :)
it helps me !! and reduced lot much time

Anonymous said...

Hi,
When I typed devenv.exe /resetskippkgs , but it shows 'devenv.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'. pls help!