The project system has encountered an error When trying to load project

Question

In Visual Studio 2017 v15.7.1 I am getting the following error window when trying to load one of my projects:

And when I go to the path specified, inside the te

Answer 1

I found that you need to do two steps to resolve this issue:

1. Delete the .vs folder at the solution level.
2. Delete the bin and obj folders in all projects within the solution.

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I encountered the issue in Visual Studio 2017 v15.7.4 and the affected project/solution was created in v15.7.4, so it can occur without upgrading to a new version of Visual Studio.