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Visual Studio 2022 - Getting 'The project file is invalid' when opening a solution with multiple projects after migration

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I'm confused about I'm dealing with I'm working with an scenario in Visual Studio 2022 where I receive the behavior message 'The project file is invalid' when attempting to open a solution that contains multiple projects after migrating from an older version of .NET... I've ensured that all projects are targeting .NET 6, but it seems that the migration has left some lingering issues. I have tried cleaning the solution and rebuilding it, but the behavior continues. Additionally, I verified that the project files themselves are formatted correctly and have the right SDK specified. Here's a snippet of one of my project files that seems to be causing the scenario: ```xml <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"> <PropertyGroup> <OutputType>Exe</OutputType> <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework> </PropertyGroup> </Project> ``` I also checked the solution file (.sln) and made sure all projects are included properly and pointing to the right paths. However, I'm still unable to open the solution. A colleague suggested checking for incompatible NuGet packages, so I ran the following command, but everything appears to be up to date: ```sh dotnet restore ``` I've even tried manually removing and re-adding the projects to the solution, but that didn't help either. Is there a specific setting or configuration I might have overlooked during the migration? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! My development environment is Windows 11. Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'm using C# 3.9 in this project. Any examples would be super helpful.