Hi All,

Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition hangs when I click on new project and the system displays a template dialog box and the system just sits there..

Anyone know how to fix this? Did I do anything to create this? Did I delete a directory that I wasn't suppose to or what?

Thanks for the help.

 Is this happening for windows and web applications? I'd go ahead and run a repair and see if it fixes the problem

I think there are something missing. Need to repare.

or

you are connecting to a remote website to create a new project or just using on local machine. if you are using remote, maybe it is connection problem.

how can i tell if it's trying to connect to remote site? I've downloaded my projects to several sites remotely before but, I never ran into problems yet?

I did the repair and re-started my system and open visual studio 2005 express and .. it still is the same.

it displays.  the New Project Dialog box with nothing in it. The name is Name and Ok button unhighlighted.

Hi,

Please make sure that project or item templates are located in <VisualStudioInstallDir>\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates or <VisualStudioInstallDir>\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates folder.

You can try to use devenv /installvstemplates command to register it.

For more information, you can refer to http://geekswithblogs.net/ehammersley/archive/2005/11/08/59451.aspx.

I hope this helps.

How do you get to the visual studio 2005 command prompt?

Do I just run the command within the specified directory?

I checked the folders you described the last folders are missing in the directory.

I'm not sure how to run the command. I guess I need instructions on how to run the command.

I might add I'm using visua studio 2005 express edition.

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

As far as I know, the express edition doesn't have such command prompt. But you can try to use the system command prompt to run this command(Start -> Run -> cmd). First, you can change current directory to the "<VisualStudioInstallDir>\Common7\IDE" and then run the devenv /installvstemplates.

I hope this helps.

Hi Thomas, I don't have the permissions?.. I'm logged in as the administrator? what can i do?

Hi,

How did you do this? Did you get any error message? This action will take a few minutes.

The steps I do are following:

1. Start -> Run -> cmd
2. Input "cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE", then the current execute path is ":\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE".
3. Input "devenv /installvstemplates"

I hope this helps.

Hi I got the follow message 'devenv' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

do I have to install something? I guess the command files are not in the directory? or they don't come with visual studio express?