UnityVS visual studio can not open

Question

I use UnityVS generate visual studio project, but project file *.CSharp.csproj could not open.

I find the problem is that ProjectTypeGuids use a unkown type : E097FAD1-6243-4DAD-9C02-E9B9EFC3FFC1 , and google also could not tell me what's that.

anyone has the same problem?

The project file is :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>10.0.20506</ProductVersion>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{70B74EA9-8515-0DD0-B4E6-E001BFFC1148}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <RootNamespace></RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>Assembly-CSharp</AssemblyName>
    <FileAlignment>512</FileAlignment>
    <ProjectTypeGuids>{E097FAD1-6243-4DAD-9C02-E9B9EFC3FFC1};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>
    <TargetFrameworkIdentifier>.NETFramework</TargetFrameworkIdentifier>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v3.5</TargetFrameworkVersion>
    <TargetFrameworkProfile>Unity Subset v3.5</TargetFrameworkProfile>
    <CompilerResponseFile></CompilerResponseFile>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>Temp\UnityVS_bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE;UNITY_STANDALONE_WIN;ENABLE_MICROPHONE;ENABLE_TEXTUREID_MAP;ENABLE_AUDIO_FMOD;UNITY_STANDALONE;ENABLE_MONO;ENABLE_TERRAIN;ENABLE_SUBSTANCE;ENABLE_GENERICS;ENABLE_MOVIES;ENABLE_WWW;ENABLE_IMAGEEFFECTS;ENABLE_WEBCAM;RENDER_SOFTWARE_CURSOR;ENABLE_NETWORK;ENABLE_PHYSICS;ENABLE_CACHING;ENABLE_CLOTH;ENABLE_SHADOWS;ENABLE_AUDIO;ENABLE_DUCK_TYPING;ENABLE_SINGLE_INSTANCE_BUILD_SETTING;UNITY_4_2_2;UNITY_4_2;ENABLE_PROFILER;UNITY_EDITOR;UNITY_EDITOR_WIN;UNITY_TEAM_LICENSE</DefineConstants>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <DebugType>pdbonly</DebugType>
    <Optimize>false</Optimize>
    <OutputPath>Temp\UnityVS_bin\Release\</OutputPath>
    <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
    <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
    <DefineConstants>TRACE;UNITY_STANDALONE_WIN;ENABLE_MICROPHONE;ENABLE_TEXTUREID_MAP;ENABLE_AUDIO_FMOD;UNITY_STANDALONE;ENABLE_MONO;ENABLE_TERRAIN;ENABLE_SUBSTANCE;ENABLE_GENERICS;ENABLE_MOVIES;ENABLE_WWW;ENABLE_IMAGEEFFECTS;ENABLE_WEBCAM;RENDER_SOFTWARE_CURSOR;ENABLE_NETWORK;ENABLE_PHYSICS;ENABLE_CACHING;ENABLE_CLOTH;ENABLE_SHADOWS;ENABLE_AUDIO;ENABLE_DUCK_TYPING;ENABLE_SINGLE_INSTANCE_BUILD_SETTING;UNITY_4_2_2;UNITY_4_2;ENABLE_PROFILER;UNITY_EDITOR;UNITY_EDITOR_WIN;UNITY_TEAM_LICENSE</DefineConstants>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Reference Include="mscorlib" />
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.XML" />
    <Reference Include="System.Core" />
    <Reference Include="Boo.Lang" />
    <Reference Include="UnityScript.Lang" />
    <Reference Include="UnityEngine">
      <HintPath>Library\UnityAssemblies\UnityEngine.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
    <Reference Include="UnityEditor">
      <HintPath>Library\UnityAssemblies\UnityEditor.dll</HintPath>
    </Reference>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFCamera.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFCxForm.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFDisplayInfo.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFDisplayMatrix.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFEvents.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFGamepad.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFInitParams.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFKey.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFLifecycleEvent.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFManager.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFManager_Imports.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFMovie.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFMovie_Imports.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFRTT.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFSentinal.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFValue.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\scaleform\SFValue_Imports.cs" />
    <Compile Include="Assets\Scripts\UI\MyCamera.cs" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\SyntaxTree\UnityVS\2012\UnityVS.CSharp.targets" />
</Project>

Answer 1

I've fixed this issue by removing and installing UnityVS again. The "Repair" function of UnityVS installer has not changed anything, so I needed to uninstall it completely first.

Answer 2

I was getting the error "This project is incompatible with the current version of Visual Studio". A "repair" would not fix the problem, but uninstalling and reinstalling with no 'devenv.exe processes running, was the solution. I was using Visual Studio 2013 Community, and opened the project via the Unity toolbar (Visual Studio Tools\Open in Visual Studio).

@Jb Evain - Additional thanks to you for pointing me in the right direction on my own similar problem.

Answer 3

I had the same problem in Visual Studio 2010 Professional after I uninstalled another version of Visual Studio I wasn't using (2013 Express).

None of the other solutions worked for me, but after doing a repair of VS2010 using the installation disk it started working again.

Answer 4

You can manually remove these tags inside proj file.

<ProjectTypeGuids></ProjectTypeGuids>

The error message should be gone, but you're not able to use the debug function. I am still looking for a solution.

Answer 5

A solution that worked for me was to forcibly re-import the Visual Studio Tools for Unity asset in my Unity project (by importing a custom package and navigating to the package in the Program Files folder).

I think the older version of the tool was not being replaced in my Unity projects even when I re-installed the tool and added it in the usual way.

Answer 6

This typically happens in three different scenarios:

• The user is using a trial version of Visual Studio. Currently UnityVS requires a full Visual studio.
• The installation failed to recreate the Visual Studio extension cache. We saw this happen if there was a stray devenv.exe process. Make sure no devenv.exe process is running, and re-install UnityVS.
• The user has an old cracked version of UnityVS installed in the GAC which conflicts with the current UnityVS.

There's also the case where you haven't installed the .NET 3.5 framework which is required by Unity (Unity's class library is a subprofile of .NET 3.5), but the error message is usually explicit about this.