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Andras Zoltan
Andras Zoltan

Reputation: 42353

New Asp.Net Project Template Dialog is empty

I have (just reinstalled) Visual Studio 2013 Professional (on Win 8.1) to try and fix this: If I try to create a new Web Project, for either .Net 4.5 or 4.5.1, then I see the screen below.

If I try to open an existing MVC 5 website (one I've just created through that wizard on another machine) - then it works just fine.

Equally, if I set the target framework to 4 then I get the previous MVC 4 template appear, and that works.

If I look in the Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\Web\CSharp\1033\ folder then I see WebApplication45 which appears to contain the content that this project template uses - so why is it broken!?

The machine did use to have VS2012 on it, and I notice that in the list of installed products for 2013 it has 'ASP.Net Web Frameworks and Tools 2012.2' - which I believe is a VS 2012 thing. So I'm wondering if that's interfering with it. But there's nothing on my Add/Remove programmes for this, so I don't know how to uninstall it!

Any help greatly appreciated before I throw my screen through the window :)

Empty 'new ASP.Net project' dialog

Upvotes: 2

Views: 345

Answers (4)

MarkXA
MarkXA

Reputation: 4384

I fixed this by deleting these files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies:

  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.WindowsAzure.Contracts.dll
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.WindowsAzure.Explorer.dll
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.dll

(based on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/08/04/vs-tfs-2013-3-update-3-released.aspx#10550199).

Upvotes: 0

Jacques Eloff
Jacques Eloff

Reputation: 306

Please try the following:

  1. Close VS, open Explorer and go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

  2. Delete the following assemblies if they exist:

    • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.WindowsAzure.Contracts.dll
    • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.WindowsAzure.Explorer.dll
    • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.dll

  3. Restart VS

Upvotes: 2

Andras Zoltan
Andras Zoltan

Reputation: 42353

I solved it by removing all programs connected with .Net development and SQL (just being really cutthroat) - not just Visual Studio; going down my installed programs list from top to bottom:

  • Visual Studio 2013, obviously
  • All .Net Framework SDKs and Language Targeting Packs
  • All Azure tools SDKs (some start with 'Azure', one starts 'Windows Azure')
  • All SQL Server stuff - possibly too much, but I didn't need them outside of VS
  • IIS Express

I then rebooted and deleted all remaining Microsoft Visual Studio folders (I had v10, 11 and 12) from Program Files (x86) and all remaining SQL Server folders. SQL is also in the x64 program files, and that's used legitimately by the OS, so might want to skip that one.

I then rebooted again and reinstalled 2013 with Update 3 - and now the new project dialog works as expected.

It's most likely the removal of just one of those things that fixed it (my money is on clearing down the VS folders).

Upvotes: 0

aleha_84
aleha_84

Reputation: 8539

In Tools > Extensions and Updates:

  1. Update to lates VS2013 update (it is Update 3 now)
  2. Install if not installed Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools
  3. Install if not installed ASP.NET Web Forms MVC 4
  4. Install if not installed MS VS ASP.NET MVC 5 Scaffolding

Upvotes: 0

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