“The project file was unloaded” when moving VS2010 project to another server

Question

I have moved a Visual Studio 2010 project to another server by copying and pasting the folder contents into another folder on a different server.

My understand was t

Answer 1

In my case, I saw similar message (Projected was unloaded) and all I had to do was simply re-launching Visual Studio (2017) in Admin mode and the problem went away. Per one of the above answers, I tried to right-click and selected Reload but got a warning that, due to required access to IIS on the machine, I had to launch VS in Admin mode.

HTH