Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB926601)
Visual Studio had been crashing on me when I attempted to get the latest code from TFS. A helpful developer (thanks, Steven!) tipped me off on a service pack for Visual Studio that would cure its ailment. However, he warned that it would take a whole day to install this service pack so it would be wise to wait until I didn't have any pressing deadlines before I fixed this problem.
Today I discovered why. After installing the service pack, I got the following error message when I attempted to open the solution I was working on:
The project file cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation.
I Googled for a solution and came across some forum posts with promising suggestions.
I tried all the easy fixes first.
- running
devenv /setup
at the Visual Studio Command Prompt - running
devenv /ResetSkipPkgs
at the Visual Studio Command Prompt - running
regsvr32.exe "%vs80comntools%\..\IDE\projectaggregator.dll"
- installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 - Update to Support Web Application Projects (KB915364)
But none of these tricks fixed my issue.
Finally I gave one last suggestion a try. I reinstalled Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer - ENU Service Pack 1 and it worked like a charm. I can open my solution without any error messages once again. I'm hoping that Visual Studio won't crash when I update my local copy of the code. (So far I haven't seen any crashes yet.)
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