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I just installed VS11 professional version on windows 8 consumer preview OS.

I tried to create a win32 console app, wizard fails with following error:

Microsoft Visual Studio
'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\VCWizards\default.vcxproj' cannot be opened because its project type (.vcxproj) is not supported by this version of the application. 

To open it, please use a version that supports this type of project.
OK

Not sure what i'm missing. Anyone here can help me? This is the screenshot during error

Charles
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rplusg
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  • You have professional version, so can't you contact tech support about that? – SigTerm Apr 06 '12 at 06:27
  • I thought i might get answer on stackoverflow very fast than from microsoft's tech support. Actually it happened like that before, back in 2009 to me. – rplusg Apr 06 '12 at 06:31

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Here's what fixed it for me, check your User environment variables for VCHOME, VCINSTALLDIR and vsinstalldir.

Change 

X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\

to

X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\

Or

X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\

depending VS 2012 or 2013.

colin lamarre
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  • This from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/279c09f3-5391-49c9-ac75-d6f6b921bd0f/visual-c-project-system-package-package-did-not-load-correctly?forum=vssetup – esmirnov May 05 '14 at 11:16
  • that was me :) btw you can just delete those vars it seems. – colin lamarre May 05 '14 at 16:50
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Couldn't find the answer. Re-installation of VS11 fixed the issue.

rplusg
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Run VS2011 first and than drag and drop project file in it. That helped me.

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For those who come to this thread with the same problem but for VS2015: installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 fixed the problem for me.

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