MSB3422 Failed to retrieve VC project information through the VC project engine object model. MSB342

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Published on 2010-02-03T15:38:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 9:52 UTC
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I'm getting the following errors from MSBuild while trying to build a solution:

C:\dev\MySln.sln : warning MSB3422: Failed to retrieve VC project information through the VC project engine object model. Unable to determine default tool for the specified file configuration.
C:\dev\MySln.sln : warning MSB3425: Could not resolve VC project reference "C:\dev\MyProj.vcproj".

Have you got any ideas on what's causing this? I've seen other postings about similar, but different errors such as when the MSB3422 error has a different message and shows "Illegal characters in path.", but I haven't seen any useful information about how to solve the error I'm getting where it says "Unable to determine default tool for the specified file configuration.".

Thanks.

I found this, but it doesn't really help:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/thread/b470f111-9321-4b43-8bd1-7fcf67c2d402

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