'There is no editor available' error in VS

Question

When I tried to select designer view in VS 2010 I get this error:

There is no editor available for 'c:\user\teadrinkinggeek\documents\visual studio 2010\websites\website2\About.aspx'.

Make sure the application for the file type (.aspx) is installed.

I opened a different website and the error is still there.

How do I resolve this?

Answer 1

To solve that issue just check your reference and fix those that has "!".

This happened to me also: related/additional notes related to this fix.

Solution Explorer

--> Expand References

--> Right click on the item with "Yellow Triange w/ "!" point"

--> select "Remove"

Open the "Build" Menu at the top

--> select: Rebuild "filename"

Double clicking on the from name in Solution Explorer would then open the from normally for me.

Answer 2

I had this issue and it was easly resolved by the following:

Right-Click on the .edmx file --> Open With --> ADO.NET Entity Data Model Designer and then Set as Default.

Answer 3

I made a ‘painful’ decision to uninstall all things related to VS 2010, and re-install from scratch. After 6 hours of troubleshooting, re-installing VS 2010 again, it worked.

Note: I initially run Visual Web Developer side-by-side with VS 2010. I uninstalled that package too. Maybe the two packages caused the problem? However I spoke to one developer on Twitter, he said he had no problem with both packages working side-by-side. Maybe it was the way I initially installed them.

If you have the same problem, please backup your work, projects etc, before you uninstall, otherwise you might run into more problems.

Answer 4

Well I faced the same issue. I right clicked on edmx file and opened it with Entity Data model designer. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

This problem is somewhat difficult to diagnose. The easiest thing is probably to re-install your copy of Visual Studio. Most likely, something got corrupted during the installation, or you failed to install a crucial component required for opening ASPX files.

Aside from that, there is one trick that I've seen work before. I suppose it's worth a try before you go through the trouble of re-installing. Here are the steps:

1. Open a new command prompt window.
2. Navigate to the directory path in which you installed Visual Studio.
   _{(I have no experience with the Express editions, so I'm not sure if the paths and names of the executables are the same as the}
   ^{full versions. I suspect they're probably not. Thus, the best way to get this information is right-clicking on your shortcut icon.}

3. Execute the following command, where "devenv" is the name of the executable you use to start
   the Visual Studio IDE:

   devenv /resetskippkgs
   

Answer 6

I've also encountered the same problem in Visual Studio 2008. But don't worry folks it's damn simple to solve.

Just follow the simple steps stated as follows:

1. Close all the opened programs on your machine.
2. Go to Command Prompt window
3. Give the following command : c:\program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
4. Now run: devenv /resetskippkgs

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