The project type is not supported by this installation

Question

Whenever I try to open a project (csproj) that\'s downloaded from the internet, most of the times, I get the

\"The project type is not s

Answer 1

This can also be encountered while trying to open an ASP.Net MVC project while you don't have ASP.Net MVC installed with your Visual Studio 2010. In my case it was ASP.Net MVC 3.0