Incompatible project type .deployproj (Visual Studio 2019)

Question

I have a solution that contains a .deployproj type of project. It seems that Visual Studio 2019 is not able to load that project. The detailed error message is the following:

Unsupported This version of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects. The project types may not be installed or this version of Visual Studio may not support them. For more information on enabling these project types or otherwise migrating your assets, please see the details in the "Migration Report" displayed after clicking OK. - Provisioning.Arm, "C:...\Provisioning.Arm\Provisioning.Arm.deployproj"

Non-functional changes required Visual Studio will automatically make non-functional changes to the following projects in order to enable them to open in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Project behavior will not be impacted.

What can I do in order to load the project within Visual Studio 2019?

Answer 1

It seems that you need to install the Azure Development workload in order for Visual Studio to be able to load .deployproj projects.

So just modify the current installation to also contain this workload. (I don't know exactly what individual component needs to be installed for this to work, I just installed the entire Azure Development workload).