Project incompatible, application not installed

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_{Monday, March 11, 2019 11:03 AM}

Hi,

Just installed Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 | Version 15.9.8 | VisualStudio.15.Release/15.9.8+28307.481 and when I try to open an "old" solution created with VS 2015 I get the message "The Application is not installed" enclosed a pic of the message.

Any idea what I can do do open the older Solutions?

Any help and all the help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Vitor da Fonseca

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_{Monday, March 11, 2019 2:26 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi vdafonse,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

In Visual Studio 2017, go to Tools > Extensions and updates. At the upper-right search box, search for "integration". It should come up with Analysis or Diagnostic Tools (or similar). Click Disable, then Enable. Exit the dialog, and close Visual Studio. Relaunch and open your solution again. Your projects will still complain they can't be loaded because of incompatibilities, but now you can right-click them individually and select "Reload Project" and they should load fine.

I refer to the similar thread: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/216061/project-incompatible-application-not-installed.html .

Please feel free to let me know if it works or not.

Best Regards,

May

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_{Friday, August 7, 2020 7:53 AM}

does this also working for Visual Studio 2019?

_{Wednesday, August 26, 2020 5:40 PM}

it worked for me, with Visual Studio 2019