I\'m working in VB project with VS 2012 and after finish I try to add setup project.
I didn\'t find it (because the Setup Project was discontinued after VS2010) so
I also faced the similar problem. I googled but couldn't find the solution. So I tried on my own and here is my solution.
Open you solution file in notepad. Make 2 changes
Hope this helps u as well..........
Solution of VS2010 is supported by VS2012. Solution of VS2012 isn't supported by VS2010 --> one-way upgrade only. VS2012 doesn't support setup projects. Find here more about VS2010/VS2012 compatibility: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747(v=vs.110).aspx
the simplest solution is.....open your website in vs2013 and go to Debug->WebsiteProperties (last option) a new window will open..
in this window go to "Build" option and change .net framework version from 4.5 to 4.0.....then select ok. [note: this step will only work if your project does not have dependencies with vs2013...]
Now open your website in vs2010
Simple solution which worked for me.
Just to elaborate on Bhavin's excellent answer - editing the solution file works but you may still get the incompatible error (as David reported) if you had .NET 4.5 selected as the default .NET version in your VS2012 project and your VS2010 enviroment doesn't support that.
To quickly fix that, open the VS2012 .csproj file in a text editor and change the TargetFrameworkVersion down to 4.0 (from 4.5). VS2010 will then happily load the "edited" solution and projects.
You'll also have to edit an app.config files that have references to .NET 4.5 in a similar way to allow them to run on a .NET 4.0 environment.
I had a similar problem and none of the solutions above worked, so I went with an old standby that always works:
That almost always works if you've spent 10 minutes at it and can't get it.
Note that for similar problems with older versions (2008, 2005) you can usually get away with just changing the version in the .csproj and either changing the version in the .sln or discarding it, but this doesn't seem to work for 2013.