Help Trying to Create Project Get Errror 0x8007007B

Hi Charlie,

I assume you got to the New Project dialog since you could change the Project Type. What are you using for these fields on the New Project dialog?
Name
Location
Solution Name

Best regards,

Hi,

I don't think you need to uninstall.

Visual Basic Express by default creates your project in a temporary location and discards that project if you don't want to save it. On my machine (English Windows XP), that location is

C:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects

My guess is this path on your machine is somehow invalid. Would you please check what the equivalence path for this is?

If you cannot figure out what the above temporary path is on your machine, you can do this:
- Use menu Tools | Options
- Select "Project and Solutions" on the tree view.
- Check "Save new projecst when created" on the panel.
After this, when you try to create a new project, the dialog should let you specify the full path. Use a valid path in this case.

Hope this helps,
Best regards,

Hi,

Can you try this first?

If you cannot figure out what the above temporary path is on your machine, you can do this:
- Use menu Tools | Options
- Select "Project and Solutions" on the tree view.
- Check "Save new projecst when created" on the panel.
After this, when you try to create a new project, the dialog should let you specify the full path. Use a valid path in this case.

Best regards,

Thanks a lot, jvwardle! It certainly does the trick!

My user name was a problem - I have changed this to something simple.

I followed the above advice - checking the "Save new project ... " box

I can now specify a path that exists but I then get the mesage that a project with this name already exists - regardless of what name I give it. A new directory is created with the chosen name but I don't move on to another screen.

Thanks for all your advice everybody!

Rich

was just wandering how you found that solution out. i was about to call microsoft and see if they could figure it out cause there is nothing in the knowledge base about it. i finally found your solution because i selected internet when doing the search in the support section. anyways it fixed my problem. thanks for the info. maybe microsoft should look into fixing this problem as i am sure lots of people (70% or more or the windows population) have either a space or some other char in their windows username.

Hello

Ive tried all the suggestions here so far (save new project...., and removing spaces/irregular characters, ect) however the same error message still appears on mine when i create a new project. This may have something to do with running windows vista, can sombody please help