Problem opening report solution: Project item ‘#itemn°#’ does not represent a file.
Today I had some problems with a report solution created in Visual Studio 2005:
After I got the latest version out of SourceSafe, I could not open it anymore. The error message was “Project item ’4294967294′ does not represent a file.”
Searching for this error on the internet I came to this solution:
- Open the .rptproj file in notepad (or another text editor) and delete the line that begins with “<State>$base64$”
- Open the solution
- Delete the source control bindings
- Add it to source control again- Done!
Davy Knuysen
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Make sure you’re logged in as a user in the local admin group. This was my problem.