Error opening Visual Studio solution file: Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.
http://blogs.msdn.com/madenwal/archive/2006/03/10/548984.aspx
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...
This dialog box appears with the error "The application for project <project> is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (<projectextension>) is installed."
Workaround
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This dialog box appears because a product required to open the specified file was not found. It is common for this error to occur when attempting to open a project file that cannot be opened with the installed version of Visual Studio. For example, attempting to open a Visual C# project file with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition will open this dialog box.
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Install the correct version of Visual Studio.