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I have been given the task to port an dev studio 2010 asp.net solution over to 2013. The only remaining problem I have are we seem to have 2 web deployment projects (i.e. they have a .wdproj extension), and dev studio 2013 reports them as "incompatible", and then when you expand the node, the extra error description "The application is not installed" (see screen shot below)....

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I have done a lot of searching and can just not find a clear answer (they just seem to explain what these projects are etc)

So, my question is * Are these project supported in dev studio 2013, and if so is there some other plugin I need to install. * If they are NOT supported, is there an equivalent I need to use, and is there a way to convert from one to the other.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Peter

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These are no longer supported in VS2013 (or even in VS2012 for that matter). Almost all of the features have been rolled up into the publish features build in to the product, without the need for a separate project.

See http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2012/visual-studio-2012-web-publishing-improvements for a walkthrough of how publishing works in the newer versions.

Jimmy
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  • You can, however, use the [Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2011/03/17/visual-studio-setup-projects-vdproj-will-not-ship-with-future-versions-of-vs.aspx) which I can confirm works. – m.edmondson Jun 19 '15 at 09:04