Where is project temlpates?

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Could you please try repairing the VWD2005 Beta2 installation? To repair the installation
- Go to http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/default.aspx
- Click on "Download Now"
- When the setup shows you a dialog with options to repair/remove, select option to repair and run through the rest of the set up

When templates are downloaded properly, you should be able see, for example, the project templates for C#, at
<VWD install directory>\common7\IDE\VWDExpress\Project Templates\Web\CSharp\1033

Hope this helps,
Thanks again,

Suma at 2007-8-21 >

I also tried using the basic procedure provided at:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/uninstall/

without any luck. I've installed and re-installed the latest VS C# Express several times, but again I'm still stuck with the same problem of not having any templates.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks, eajam

eajam at 2007-8-21 >

Thanks all for reporting these issues. We are investigating these issues. We would really like to get the following information from you. This can help us diagnose the issues better. Some of you have already provided this information on the thread, but for others it is not really clear. (For example, eajam it is not clear for your machine if you have anything other than C# Express installed on your machine. For yaipaaa we would like to confirm that you un-installed Beta 1 and then installed Beta 2 in order to upgrade, right? )

1) What VS version (Beta1\CTP) \SKU (VSTS, Express?) did you have installed before?
2) Did you un-install any VS version\SKU before installing the new VS version or you installed the new Verion\SKU side by side?
3) Which new VS version\SKU did you install?

For XASD, we would like to know if you are refering to "New Web Site" dialog or "New Project" dialog because VWDExpress should not show "New Project" dialog option by default. Do you see the web templates in "New Web site" dialog?

Thanks
Hiren.

hiren at 2007-8-21 >

As a final resort you could try resetting your Beta2 install by running devenv /setup from a command prompt. Please be aware that this will reset all your settings.

If this doesn't fix your problem then the only guranteed way for you to get back to a known good state is to completely clean re-install your machine

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Prasadi de Silva

PrasadideSilva at 2007-8-21 >

We are still trying to repro this issue on a clean machine, but so far we haven't had much success. I work on the team that owns the VSTemplate architecture. I would like to get in touch directly with the customers on this thread on email to understand the issue better and try and get more information from you. My email address is hirens@microsoft.com. XASD, eajam I will really appreciate if you can email me. A couple of things I will like to do is:

1) Have you send me the template cache file called cache.bin. We would like to take a look at that file and see if there is any corruption. If you have already not tried to reset your cache by running vwdexpress.exe /setup ( or yoursku.exe /setup) I would suggest don't do that because we would like to see the cache.bin file if possible before we reset it to understand why the templates are not showing up.

2) We log template related errors in the Application event log. You can see this log by doing Control Panel -> Administrative tools - >Event Viewer -> Application log. Look for error messages with a source "VSTemplates". I would also like to get in touch with you and see if the error messages can help us diagnose the problem.

Please get in touch with me on the above email address.

Thanks
Hiren Shah.

hiren at 2007-8-21 >

Well, now the deal is that I can start VC# Express, select new project and get the window with the "Visual Studio Installed Templates." Woohoo! The problem is that within the project I cannot add other items. That is, I go to the main menu, click the Project menu item, followed by clicking on the various "Add..." items and get the respective form without anything to select. Could you believe this?! ;) Yep, no window form, user control, class, new item or existing item. And yes, I can get Reference and Web Reference just fine. It's the items on top that are the problem.

There's no doubt there was a one step forward and three step backwards from Beta1 to Beta2. Hey, did you guys party hardy the night before Beta2 went out?!!! ;)))

Thanks, Alex

eajam at 2007-8-21 >

I saw the post about someone having a french version and that perhaps that was the problem...

I had a korean version of visual web developer and after removing it like magic I had options to create a new project..

I would strongly recommend that microsoft products adopt the practice of providing a menu for language settings... it may prevent this kind of problem....

sbrownii at 2007-8-21 >