The project type is not supported by this installation

Question

Whenever I try to open a project (csproj) that\'s downloaded from the internet, most of the times, I get the

\"The project type is not s

Answer 1

If you are using VS 2010 and it is a ASP.NET project make sure you have the Visual Developer installed from the VS 2010 CD. This is not the free one, but part of what is required to work on ASP.NET projects in Visual Studio.