<p>I got this error today when trying to open a Visual Studio 2008 <strong>project</strong> in Visual Studio 2005:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found.</p>
</blockquote>

Open your csproj file in notepad (or notepad++)
Find the line:
```
```
<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
```
```
and change it to
```
```
<Import Project="$(MSBuildBinPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
```
```