I am trying to move one of my projects  from VS2010 to VS2013.

The Project contains couple of subprojects :

1) Schema Peoject

2) Maps Projects

3) Orchestrations Project

4) Pipelines project and a

5) C# library project

Except for the C# library project none of the other projects are loading. They all show the error message:

"The application which this project type is based on was not found. Please try this link for further information: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=299083&projecttype=EF7E3281-CD33-11D4-8326-00C04FA0CE8D"

I tried reparing BizTalk 2013 and removing temp files. Any new ideas on solving the issue?

Thanks in advance for your help.

OS: windows server 2012 R2

• Edited by raghus4228 9 hours 58 minutes ago

The reason the other projects are not loading is because the BizTalk Developer Project templates that you are using are not supported for the version of Visual Studio you are using.

If you're migrating from VS2010, you've most likely built these projects for BizTalk Server 2010. BizTalk Server 2010 does not support VS2013. You can install VS2010 in a coexist mode with VS2013 (refer https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx) and then open the projects in VS2010.

If you're working with BizTalk Server 2013/R2 then it is very likely that the BizTalk Developer Tools is not installed on this machine.

Regards.

• Proposed as answer by Abhishek0127[Abhishek kumar]MVP 2 hours 34 minutes ago

Hi Raghu ,

What you can try is to create a empty solution in Visual studio 2013  with same name as your BizTalk solution developed in BizTalk 2010. Once you have created the solution

you can Create project hierarchy for the solution in visual studio 2013  as per your existing project in VS2010  and then you can try adding the schemas ,Orchestration and map to the newly created solution .

Note : You need verify BizTalk 2013R2 templates exists when you open Visual studio .

Thanks

Abhishek