“the project type is not supported by this installation” error

Question

I have installed VS 2008 SP1 on W2k3 OS. After I installed ASP.NET MVC beta and tried creating ASP.NET MVC type project I get the following error.

\"the project type

Answer 1

If you are trying to run an MVC application, try running AspNetMVC1.msi. It worked for me, so hopefully it will resolve your problem.

Answer 2

i installed visual web developer from the Visual studio 2008 installation dvd and that fixed the problem

Answer 3

The trick to getting around this problem is the ProjectTypeGUID, but the GUIDS listed elsewhere in this and other posts didn't work for me.

In the end (and this is my suggestion), I created a new MVC project, then open the *.vbProj file and copy out the ProjectTypeGUIDs I found there. When I transposed those into the vbproj file of the project I was having trouble with, everything started working.

In my case (for an existing VS10 VB project), the right GUIDs were:

<ProjectTypeGuids>{F85E285D-A4E0-4152-9332-AB1D724D3325};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}</ProjectTypeGuids>

Answer 4

This is sometimes caused by running a version of Visual Studio which doesn't support MSTest.

Answer 5

install ASP.NET MVC 1.0. It works to me.