Unable to get local copy of file web references\mappointservice\reference.cs. Visual Studio 2005 upgrades MapPoint Web Service SDK 4.1

If you are trying to open Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Software Development Kit (SDK) version 4.1 in visual studio 2005 or higher visual studio will upgrade the project and you will receive the following error message

ERROR: Unable to get local copy of file web references\mappointservice\reference.cs.

This error is comming because visual studio 2005 includes additional features for visual c#.net and vb.net which were not present in earlier versions of visual studio. Other reason is upgrade wizard does not correctly convert the mappoint SDK sample projects.

To resolve this

* Start visual studio 2005

* On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Project/Solution.

* Locate the project file (.csproj or .vbproj) that you want to open, and then
click Open.

* In Solution Explorer, right-click the name of the project, and then click Add
Web Reference.

* In the URL box, type the following URL:
http://staging.mappoint.net/standard-30/mappoint.wsdl
Click Go.

* Click Add Reference.


* Right-click the project, and then click Rebuild Solution.


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