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D. Veloper
D. Veloper

Reputation: 1517

No templates available when creating a new project in Visual Studio

"No template information found. See the application log in Event Viewer for more details. To open Event Viewer, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Event Viewer."

That's the error message I get when I try to create a new project or solution. How can this be resolved?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 20211

Answers (4)

d219
d219

Reputation: 2835

This may not match the original posters exact symptoms but I was seeing a blank screen after clicking Create a new project (VS 2019). Discovered that the install of Visual Studio had 'finished with errors' (paraphrasing there - now I've fixed the issue I can't see the exact error message) anyhow digging into it I found that the C++ redistributable had not installed (even though I'm a C# dev that's still important to VS!)

If I tried to install this as a standalone I got an Access Denied error (even if running as Administrator). Digging into the VS install logs I found a similar report.

Anyhow after a fair amount of Googling a few responses pointed to Virus software preventing the C++ redistributable from installing (in my case McAfee). Once that was removed a repair of VS resolved the issue :)

Upvotes: 0

Mukund Thakkar
Mukund Thakkar

Reputation: 1305

Run Following command and it will restore templates. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE>devenv /installvstemplates

Upvotes: 1

prince bhalani
prince bhalani

Reputation: 81

Start Menu --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 --> Visual Studio Tools. Right-click over the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcut and make sure you select Run as Administrator. Once the VS Command Prompt comes up, execute the command without Quot,

  1. "devenv /installvstemplates"

  2. "devenv /resetsettings"

    And that worked out.

Upvotes: 8

D. Veloper
D. Veloper

Reputation: 1517

I used a solution presented to me from other sites. One of them said to reinstall templates. I did the following:

In the command prompt I typed: cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE

Then I typed: devenv /installvstemplates

I took a minute but after it completed I opened Visual Studio and tried to create a new project. All my project templates were back in order, including additional templates like Workflow, SharePoint and Silverlight.

Link to other source

Upvotes: 14

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