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I am facing a strange problem...

I am working on a BSP with Visual Studio 2008 on a Windows 8.1 virtual machine for a Windows Embedded Compact 7 system. In the solution explorer window, I cannot uncollapse the 'Subprojects' category. When I click on the little '+' on the left of subprojects nothing happens. This is very frustrating since I cannot compile my subprojects independently. I copied the same BSP to another VM and the problem remains.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem ?

Thanks.

Léo D.
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I don't think this is a general issue.

I have here in front of me a virtual Windows 8.1 machine running VS2008 with Platform Builder 7.0, and opening the Subprojects folder in Solution Explorer is not a problem.

If your Platform Builder installation is fully up to date, I would suspect a corrupted workspace file, possibly an old workspace file that was not migrated correctly from a previous version of Platform Builder.

Try opening the .pbxml file and examine the <PBProjectCollection> element. Do you see your subprojects there (indicated with <PBProject>), and are the paths as expected?

You could also try and right-click the Subprojects folder in Solution Explorer and hit Add Existing Subproject.

Carsten Hansen
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I finally found the problem.

One of the subprojects used a .NET version which did not match the installed one. Being unable to open one of the projects, VS did not open the full list.

Léo D.
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