This is most annoying and incomprehensible. I tried to open an older project, that was none the less last worked with in Visual Studio Express 2013 on Windows 7. Now I had to get a new computer, and have Windows 8. On opening the .sln or .vcxproj files, Visual Studio just tells me in the solution explorer that
"this project is not compatible with the current edition"
If I open the older .vcproj project file, Visual Studio terminates the migration, showing a dialog box stating that
"the system can not find the file specified"
Although, it doesn't give any information whatsoever about what file it is actually talking about.
Did anybody else ever have a similar problem? Currently I don't know what to do, except for recreating the whole project structure from scratch, but this really shouldn't be necessary...
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I'm a student in Videogame Development, and just starting out looking at Unreal.
And no, none of my teachers know anything about this.
I have installed Unreal Engine 4.13 and Visual Studio Community 2013 now 2015.
I'm trying to make a C++ project using Unreal Engine (using blueprints is out of question so this didn't help)
Now, when I make a basic C++ project, Visual Studio shows the following error message:
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects. The project types may not be installed or this version of Visual Studio may not support them.
For more information on enabling these project types or otherwise migrating your assets, please see the details in the "Migration Report" displayed after clicking OK.
- UE4, "C:\Users\Gebruiker\MEGA\Unreal\Disposable\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\UE4.vcxproj"
- Disposable, "C:\Users\Gebruiker\MEGA\Unreal\Disposable\Intermediate\ProjectFiles\Disposable.vcxproj"
No changes required
These projects can be opened in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1 without changing them.
- Engine, "Engine"
- Games, "Games"
- Disposable, "C:\Users\Gebruiker\MEGA\Unreal\Disposable\Disposable.sln"
Then my browser opens showing a Migration Report telling me that VS had an error with Project.vcxproj and UE4.vcxproj, although it copes with Engine, Games and Project.sln.
After this VS does show up without any further action, and it does automatically open *.h and *.cpp files for newly added classes in UE4.
Though it does edit and save these, it claims that all UE's code is wrong (with squiggles), and for compiling UE4 gives errors on pieces of code that apparently don't give errors on other's machines.
It would be much appreciated to be helped out, and I'm sure it would help others too who would have the same problem.
EDIT
A screenshot of the problem and configuration
EDIT 2
A screenshot of the Help -> About Visual Studio page, VS 2015 C++ highlighted
Starting with both the Unreal Engine Editor and Visual Studio closed, right click your .uproject file and select Generate Visual Studio project files, and then launch visual studio from the .sln file.
Once Visual Studio is open check your Solution Configuration is set to Development Editor. Then go to Debug > Start without Debugging (or Ctrl-F5). If everything compiles and the Editor opens again then you're good to go.
I uninstalled VS2013, installed VS2015 with all additional options checked, made a blank, new project with Unreal with just VS2015 on my pc, and now everything works fine.
Perhaps my VS2013 installation was broken, deprecated or switching version wasn't a good idea, but I can work with VS in any case now.
Also thanks to jeevcat for mentioning it!
Install newer version of the Visual Studio. VS2013 is not the latest one, VS2015 is. People report that even updating VS2013 from Update 2 to Update 4 helps resolving similar issues.
I've got an MFC Application project under Visual Studio 2008 on XP (though I think it was started under an earlier version). When I asked to open it on a machine with VS 2012 on Windows 8.1 it translated the .vcproj to a .vcxproj and updated the .sln file but when I try to open it I just get a message "this project is incompatible with the current edition of Visual Studio". I can't find any kind of log file with any more info. The "new project" wizard only offers Windows Store apps and DLLs.
OK, it turns out that by just following the most obvious "download" link on the Microsoft site I'd got an "express" version that doesn't support MFC (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hs24szh9%28v=vs.140%29.aspx).
They really should give an error message that gives some clue as to what the problem is, though.
And now, the projects that I tried to open and run (very basic projects - little more than learning programs like hello world type programs) in VS 2013 can't be opened and run in VS Express 2010 either. Everything is licensed properly.
In fact, when I open my program in VS Express 2010 now, it underlines basic things in the header like "iostream" in red, and doesn't recognize them.
If I build a new project in either, it's just fine. But I can't get projects to work across one from the other, and if I do try, it does some rebuild, and then those projects won't work in either.
What is going on?
Actually, that happened with me when I tried to use a project of gmap.net (winforms) that I made with Visual Studio 2013 into the new version of VS 2015.
Into my case, I could see all the code I had made in C#, but I couldn't change the design of the project and I think that it will be impossible so I have been working with both.
But in your case, if you want just open the code, you should find the file with .csproj or something similar to this and do not open the project by the .sln if you know what I mean.
Doing this it will work just fine. And of course, don't forget that you should import all extensions to your new VS.
PS:
I found a nice explation of your problem here at the Visual Studio website. And this was the answer:
If you allow Visual Studio to update the project automatically, you can open it in Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
i have a project which is made in vs 2010. i have vs 2010 express. when i tried to open solution file of the project it give me an error that "not a valid project". while in back ground vs start loading project. when i build the project it give me errors that atlconv.h not found no such file or directory. please help me with this. Also when i open solution file in note pad, the follwong lines are mentioned
"Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00 #Visual Studio 2010"
also vs2010 express says that .vcxproject is not a valid file.
I have searched for answers until I have become crossed-eyed and confused.
I have a Windows XP environment with Visual Studios 2010. I have downloaded and extracted CppUnit 1.12.1 from Sourceforge to C:\CppUnit. I understand I must use Visual Studio to open src/CppUnitLibraries.dsw and Batch Build all of the projects it opens to populate the lib directory with libraries. This is essentially the extent of the CppUnit "installation" process.
However when I try to open CppUnitLibraries.dsw, Visual Studio says the project must be converted to the current Visual C++ project format. If I click "yes" (to convert and open the project), it says the project file cannot be loaded and it asks if I want to remove the unloadable project from the solution, to which I say "No" since I'm certain this is not what I want to have happen. It does this for many projects in the CppUnitLibraries.dsw solution and I'm assuming this is unwanted behavior.
A few of my search results indicated that I should open src\msvc6\testrunner\MsDevCallerListCtrl.cpp, find the line that says...
#import "libid:80cc9f66-e7d8-4ddd-85b6-d9e6cd0e93e2" version("7.0") lcid("0") raw_interfaces_only named_guids"
...and replace the 7.0 with 10.0. But this does not help.
Am I doing something wrong? What must I do to get started with CppUnit? (I'm sorry if this is a very noobish question. I'm stuck, frustrated, and very confused.)
I've successfully converted CPPUNIT 1.12.1 to be a VS2010 solution. It's described here: http://blogs.powersoft.ca/erict/archive/2012/02/21/cppunit-in-vs2010ndashwith-a-sample.aspx and the solution can be downloaded from there.
I believe that the extension .dsw was used by Visual Studio 6 in 1998.
By Visual Studio .NET 2003, they had moved to .sln Solution Files. Although the format has changed somewhat, Visual Studio 2010 still uses 2010 files.
So, if you've downloaded some software that comes with a .dsw file, Visual Studio 2010 will need to convert that file to a .sln to be able to use it.
Each time we've upgraded to a newer version of Visual Studio, at work, over the years, we've had to make some source code changes, for the newer compiler. So I'd say that any C++ code which comes with .dsw file is likely to require some significant effort.
I'd suggest trying to find a newer build or version of CppUnit, or looking for another tool.
This question looks useful.