
- REINSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SHELL FULL VERSION
- REINSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SHELL INSTALL
This may sometimes prove difficult, as other products may install Visual Studio versions without you knowing.
Remember that when Visual Studio 2010 was released, it could not yet know what Visual Studio 2012 would change, as such, it's best to install versions of Visual Studio in the order they were released.
Or locate Visual Studio 2012 in the Programs and Features window of Windows and chose "Change", the Visual Studio installer will pop up, chose "Repair" to have it repair the file associations and any other problems that may arise by installing Visual Studio versions in reverse order (it may for example mess up the MsBuild directory as well). sln extension and make sure it uses the "Visual Studio Version Selector" as default: Or open the "Default Programs" option in Windows, look up the. use the "Open With" option of Windows and select the "Visual Studio Version Selector" as your default action. The old installer will hijack the extension. Since this is a minimal version, its unable to load any project type that ships with Visual Studio Express, Professional or above. This may happen when you install an older version of Office or SQL Server after having installed Visual Studio. sln extension is owned by 'Visual Studio 2010 Shell' a minimal version of Visual Studio that ships with products like SQL Server and Office to provide support for add-in development without any other features. REINSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SHELL FULL VERSION
The same may happen when you have Visual Studio Express installed next to a full version of Visual Studio. Since this is a minimal version, it's unable to load any project type that ships with Visual Studio Express, Professional or above. sln extension is owned by "Visual Studio 2010 Shell" a minimal version of Visual Studio that ships with products like SQL Server and Office to provide support for add-in development without any other features.