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The application for project ‘….’ is not installed.

Make sure the application for the project type (.csproj) is installed.

I generally open up solutions by just double clicking on the .sln file.  In this case that is what I did.  However what it did is, since it is a 2005 solution it tried to open up in my Visual Studio 2005 install that came with Sql Server 2005.  This version couldn’t handle it so it gave this error.

Easy fix, open Visual Studio 2008.  Then file –> open project and browse to the same .sln file.  I now was able to open the project in Visual Studio 2008.

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