Working with ABP Studio, due to .NET 10 changes needed to install 2026 studio, removed old studio 2022 However, Action "Open in visual studio" stopped working.
How to resolve this?
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This typically happens because ABP Studio still tries to launch Visual Studio via the old (VS 2022) registration/path, and after uninstalling VS 2022 there is no longer a valid “devenv”/shell association to open the solution.
Fix it by re-establishing the Windows “open with Visual Studio” registration:
- Repair Visual Studio 2026
- Open Visual Studio Installer → select Visual Studio 2026 → More → Repair.
This re-registers Visual Studio shell commands and file associations that tools like ABP Studio rely on.
- Open Visual Studio Installer → select Visual Studio 2026 → More → Repair.
- Re-associate
.slnfiles with Visual Studio 2026 (important even if VS opens manually)- Right-click any
*.slnfile → Open with → Choose another app → pick Visual Studio 2026 → check Always use this app.
- Right-click any
- Restart ABP Studio (close it completely and open again) and try “Open in Visual Studio”.
- Repair Visual Studio 2026
If it still doesn’t work, the remaining reliable workaround is:
- Open the solution directly by double-clicking the
.sln(after the association above), or open VS first and use File → Open → Project/Solution.
- Open the solution directly by double-clicking the
Links (verified):
- https://abp.io/docs/latest/studio
- https://abp.io/docs/latest/studio/release-notes
- https://abp.io/get-started
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Updated both .sln and .slnx association, repaired 2026 install, restarted studio. also ran "devenv /updateConfiguration"
No success
