Tuesday September 15, 2009

VS2003 Project Load Error

Yes, this a dated topic, but like many we still have a few websites out there that were built years ago and the client doesn’t have a budget to have us upgrade the .NET versions—so we still have some sites running .NET 1.1 and we have to use Visual Studio 2003 still for those.

This post is specifically about the VS2003 error:
“Unable to get the project file from the Web Server”

Anyway, found out that if you have an issue loading a project with the above error and you’ve checked every typical thing and all seems to be fine, try this:

Delete the project cache in “C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\VSWebCache”

Worked like a charm…