Unable to access SSIS projects in VS2005 SP2

  • I hope this is the right forum to post this and find an answer.

    I have several SSIS packages that have been created over the past couple of years. They were originally created using BIDS -- Visual Studio 2005 with Service Pack 1 installed.

    I now have a new machine that has had Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 2 installed and some, not all, of my package solutions will not open. I try to open the solution file (i.e. package.sln) and I get the following error: "The selected file is not a valid solution file"

    Some of the packages are small and can be easily re-created, but a couple of the packages are extremely large and will take much time to re-do.

    Does anyone know if there is a way to fix something so I can get into these files?

    Thanks!

    mj

    ~mj

  • Are you using VSS?

    http://www.opcg.com/index.php/2009/03/17/visual-studio-the-selected-file-is-not-a-2005?blog=2

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  • Wow do I feel small! I figured this out finally (after a couple weeks of trying).

    This was permission related on our server. Not only did I get a new machine, I've been moved to a new Domain and the folder that stores our SSIS packages needed to have the share permissions updated to reflect the Domain changes for users.

    Once the permissions were corrected, I was able to open my packages again.

    So many things to consider! lol

    Hopefully this will help someone else at some point in time. 😀

    ~mj

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