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Nick Prozee
Nick Prozee

Reputation: 2913

Visual Studio 2017 unable to load project

I'm trying to load my VS2015 project into the newly installed VS2017RC but it keeps giving me the error (when loading or reloading):

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

It also tells me:

"The project requires user input. Reload the project for more information",

but reload throws me the NullRef exception.

How do I know what is wrong with my VS Instance, where can I find info about the error?

I tried the Event Viewer but that has not been very resourceful.

Project Image

Solution Output

UPDATE
Event viewer info Event log 1, App crash Event log 2, Stacktrace

Upvotes: 20

Views: 18818

Answers (1)

Yaser
Yaser

Reputation: 5719

Possible cause #1:

Try adding this to your project file, or check if it has that or not:

<PropertyGroup>
  <VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion> 
  <VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath> 
</PropertyGroup>

Possible cause #2:

Removing the two import lines that contain:

 "Microsoft.WebApplication.targets"

Hope one of these works. The first one worked for me.

Upvotes: 21

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