The project type is not supported error

I tryed to open a Visual Studio project on another enviroment and ran into an error. A dialog poped up and looked like this.

The Output Window sait 'The project type is not supported by this installation.'. So Visual Studio was not able to read the projectfiles. The reason is that the project templates are not installed.


To fix this problem you need to figure out which template you need and to install it.
Open the projects csproj-file or vbproj-file with a texteditor. A xml-structure opens, where you need to find the 'ProjectTypeGuids' tag. You will find a GUID and with searching for it you will find the projecttemplate you need to add to your Visual Studio.

Here is a list of some templates.

Database	{A9ACE9BB-CECE-4E62-9AA4-C7E7C5BD2124}
Database (other project types)	{4F174C21-8C12-11D0-8340-0000F80270F8}
Deployment Cab	{3EA9E505-35AC-4774-B492-AD1749C4943A}
Deployment Merge Module	{06A35CCD-C46D-44D5-987B-CF40FF872267}
Deployment Setup	{978C614F-708E-4E1A-B201-565925725DBA}
Deployment Smart Device Cab	{AB322303-2255-48EF-A496-5904EB18DA55}
Disdivibuted System	{F135691A-BF7E-435D-8960-F99683D2D49C}
Legacy (2003) Smart Device (C#)	{20D4826A-C6FA-45DB-90F4-C717570B9F32}
Legacy (2003) Smart Device (VB.NET)	{CB4CE8C6-1BDB-4DC7-A4D3-65A1999772F8}
SharePoint (C#)	{593B0543-81F6-4436-BA1E-4747859CAAE2}
SharePoint (VB.NET)	{EC05E597-79D4-47f3-ADA0-324C4F7C7484}
SharePoint Workflow	{F8810EC1-6754-47FC-A15F-DFABD2E3FA90}
Silverlight	{A1591282-1198-4647-A2B1-27E5FF5F6F3B}
Smart Device (C#)	{4D628B5B-2FBC-4AA6-8C16-197242AEB884}
Smart Device (VB.NET)	{68B1623D-7FB9-47D8-8664-7ECEA3297D4F}
Test	{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB}
Visual Database Tools	{C252FEB5-A946-4202-B1D4-9916A0590387}
Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)	{A860303F-1F3F-4691-B57E-529FC101A107}
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)	{BAA0C2D2-18E2-41B9-852F-F413020CAA33}
Visual Studio Tools for Office Visual C# Add-in	{04D02946-0DBE-48F9-8383-8B75A5B7BA34}
Visual Studio Tools for Office SharePoint	{BB1F664B-9266-4fd6-B973-E1E44974B511}
Web Application	{349C5851-65DF-11DA-9384-00065B846F21}
Web Site	{E24C65DC-7377-472B-9ABA-BC803B73C61A}
Windows (C#)	{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}
Windows (VB.NET)	{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}
Windows (Visual C++)	{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)	{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)	{60DC8134-EBA5-43B8-BCC9-BB4BC16C2548}
Workflow (C#)	{14822709-B5A1-4724-98CA-57A101D1B079}
Workflow (VB.NET)	{D59BE175-2ED0-4C54-BE3D-CDAA9F3214C8}
XNA (Windows)	{6D335F3A-9D43-41b4-9D22-F6F17C4BE596}
XNA (XBox)	{2DF5C3F4-5A5F-47a9-8E94-23B4456F55E2}
XNA (Zune)	{D399B71A-8929-442a-A9AC-8BEC78BB2433}