Unsupported python project in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I had a VS2015 solution with a C# and python project in it. Now I upgraded visual studio to "2017 community preview" version.

If I try to open the solution from Visual Studio by clicking on File/Open/Project... it pops up the following error message: Unsupported . After that VS cannot open the python project in the solution (it sais "incompatible" next to the project file). It can open the C# projects.

But if I simply double-click on the *.sln file, VS automatically starts up and offers the following one-way upgrade: One-way upgrade . After doing the upgrade it can open the python project as well and everything works properly.

Even though after making the one-way upgrade the first type of opening (from VS) still does not work . Opening by clicking on the solution file still works.

Thanks for any help how I can resolve this issue.

Answer 1

Python tools for visual studio 2017 is only available for the preview version. It will be added soon to the non-preview version. source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2017/03/07/python-support-in-vs2017/

Answer 2

OMG, I got the answer...

I had both VS 2017 community and VS 2017 community preview installed on my computer. (That is because obvously I installed the simple community version at first, and only installed the other when I realized it does not support python.) I did not either think that preview version will not overwrite the existing one but will make a new install.

So when I click on the sln file it opens up with the preview version of VS, but the shortcut in my start menu refers to the normal version... :S :D