title: How do I open an old MVC project in Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013?
body: <p>I have an old ASP.NET MVC 2 project which I do not want to upgrade to MVC 3 or MVC 4. I am working on a new machine running Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013. When I try to open the MVC 2 project in VS 2012 or VS 2013 I receive the error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>This project is incompatible with the current edition of Visual Studio</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The project is then unloaded and grayed out in Solution Explorer. I do not want to install another copy of Visual Studio. How can I open an old MVC project in a new version of Visual Studio?</p>