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Error opening Visual Studio solution file: Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.

I was having trouble opening a web services solution. I kept getting the following error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The application for project 'http://localhost/B2BSupplierProcessPO' is not installed.

Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.
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OK   Help  
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Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I finally found out why I'm getting this error. It was because I didn't have the 'Visual Web Developer' component installed (option to install this is in the Visual Studio setup process).  Installing that did the trick.

A similar error I believe happens for all other solution types. If you get this, check that you have the appropriate Visual Studio components installed...

Published Friday, March 10, 2006 9:31 PM by madenwal
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bob said:

thanks for the tip - i was pulling my hair on this problem and your tip saved me a lot of time.

January 6, 2007 4:22 PM
 

Matt said:

Yeah, thank you, I'm working on a project and this tripped me up.  Thanks a lot for your help.

April 18, 2007 9:20 AM
 

Tomas said:

Thank you a lot, I spent hours for searching the problem and you finally helped me!

July 17, 2008 8:52 AM
 

Shaun said:

Agreed, thanks for this.  Need to figure out a way for it to climb the google ranks.

December 11, 2008 1:46 AM

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