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Error opening Visual Studio solution file: Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.

 http://blogs.msdn.com/madenwal/archive/2006/03/10/548984.aspx

I was having trouble opening a web services solution. I kept getting the following error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The application for project 'http://localhost/B2BSupplierProcessPO' is not installed.

Make sure the application for the project type () is installed.
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OK   Help  
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Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I finally found out why I'm getting this error. It was because I didn't have the 'Visual Web Developer' component installed (option to install this is in the Visual Studio setup process).  Installing that did the trick.

A similar error I believe happens for all other solution types. If you get this, check that you have the appropriate Visual Studio components installed...

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms247038(vs.80).aspx

Visual Studio 

Application Not Installed Dialog Box 

 

This dialog box appears with the error "The application for project <project> is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (<projectextension>) is installed."

Workaround

• This dialog box appears because a product required to open the specified file was not found. It is common for this error to occur when attempting to open a project file that cannot be opened with the installed version of Visual Studio. For example, attempting to open a Visual C# project file with Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition will open this dialog box.

To workaround this error

• Install the correct version of Visual Studio.