The imported project “C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets” was not found

Question

I got this error today when trying to open a Visual Studio 2008 project in Visual Studio 2005:

The imported project \"C:\\Microsoft.C

Answer 1

For me the issue was that the path of the project contained %20 characters, because git added those instead of spaces when the repository was cloned. Another problem might be if the path to a package is too long.