When creating a WCF project in VS2010, I get "Error : WcfProject.csproj cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation"

Question

hey there. So, we have a VS2010 project and the VisualSVN server on one machine. We added a new machine with the client visual svn and the projected loaded in. except for the WCF service. i'm getting a...

" error : the project file c:/..../wcfProject.csproj cannot be opened.

The project type is not supported by this installation."

i've checked the directory, the files and file structure are there and the same as the main development machine. any tips/solutions?

thanks David K.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with some WCF solution which I downloaded from a blog.

The solutions of running deveng with the switches did not resolve my issues. After some more searching it turned out that the following clue in the answer of Ralph Willgoss lead to the solution of my problem:

I resolved it by installing the Visual Web Developer.

I also had to (manually) install the Web Platform Installer to (automatically) download the last requirements for the project to properly load.