Unable to open Win8 project in Visual Studio 2012

Hello,

I made a game with Construct 2 beta r112.

I exported the project for "Windows 8" platform.

I downloaded Visual Studio 2012, as explained scirra.com/tutorials/272/how-to-make-a-windows-8-app (version 4.5.50709)

But when I want to open the .sln file, I get an error message :

<img src="http://s8.postimage.org/45zzrihat/vserror.png" border="0" />

Don't know what to do ... and so little time until the end of the Windows 8 game competition :(

Thank you.

For information, I tried with an empty project, and the problem is the same.

So the steps are :

• Launch Construct 2
• New project
• New empty project
• Fill the name, description and author of the project
• Click on File => Export Project
• Choose Windows 8
• Click on export

Edit: I'm working on Windows 8 RTM 64 bits.

Can the problem be I have a french version ?

Are you sure you downloaded the right version of VS2012? You need "Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8", not a trial version.

Oh my bad ... I downloaded "Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web" ... I didn't see the other link on MS page (your link redirect me to another page since I'm in France).

Very sorry for being so stupid :/

Thank you !

Sorry to bump this old thread, but I can't get it to work for some reason. I have the same problem as —

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/9LgJgLa.png" border="0" />

I've tried multiple versions of VS too (because I downloaded the wrong ones TWICE) before finally finding this thread and installing VS 2012 Express for Win8.

I'm currently using Win8 x64, exported the game using the Windows Phone 8 option.

Edit: Sorry, didn't even see this was on the bugs forum. Just bumped it because it was the only thread where someone was having the same problem as me!

andreyin - same problem, same cause - you have the wrong version of Visual Studio. There's a separate version for Windows Phone 8, you can't open WP8 projects in the version for just Windows 8 apps.

Ashley

I see now! Man, this is such a mess.. so I need "Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Phone", right? Downloading it right now to try it out, thanks!