"the project type is not supported by this installation" error
I have installed VS 2008 SP1 on W2k3 OS. After I installed ASP.NET MVC beta and tried creating ASP.NET MVC type project I get the following error.
"the project type is not supported by this installation"
Let me know if you have fixed this issue.
I tried some of the solutions posted here but still no joy. Finally I replaced the ProjectTypeGuids to this one below in the project file and it loaded fine
<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
I came across something while having issues of my own.
In short, try:
- Run the Visual Studio Command Prompt as Admin.
-
Execute:
devenv /setup
It then whirs away for a bit (VS2008 will not open), once the prompt returns fire up VS and all (may) be back to normal.
I came across this when my MVC projects got messed up when trying to get the Entity Framework up and running :)
The problem is that MVC 2 is not completely backward compatible. Visual Studio cannot open MVC 1 apps without MVC 1 installed. So if you just install MVC 1, which can install together with MVC 2 you should be just fine. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b