Monday, 6 August 2007
Visual Studio 2008
I have recently installed the beta 2 releases of both VB.NET & VC#.NET 2008, and hoping to experiment with some of the more interesting to features like WPF and LINQ syntax, I found that I there were no templates installed at all. In fact, because of this, I cannot even create a blank project. The best I can do is create blank files in Windows Explorer and edit them, or upgrade existing projects. Now, of course I'm considering this a problem with my personal installation, but considering that I have a nice working copy of Vista installed (ignoring all its many usual problems, but remembering that VS.NET 2008 ought to be built for Vista) and that the Visual Studio Express MSI installers ran cleanly, I havne't been to impressed so far. I will keep investigating and post any solution I find here for others who may be experiencing the same/similar problems. To conclude: is this yet another reason to ditch development on Windows and move to Linux, where it's becoming almost as easy to develop in C# anyway? Anyway, perhaps you can look forward to some of my .NET projects being ported to Linux some time soon, especially Messenger.NET, which I'll be looking to bind to telepathy (most likely with telepath-sharp).
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Hey Alex,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and my apologies for this error.
Can you try navigating to the install directory for VS Express (at: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE) from a command line and run "vcsexpress.exe /installvstemplates" to see if that fixes your issue?
To better diagnose what went wrong, we'd also really appreciate it if you could pull any items from your Event Log where the
‘source’ is ‘Visual Studio – VsTemplate’or 'Visual Studio.'
Again my apologies and hopefully we can get this fixed for you.
Thanks,
Dan Fernandez
Lead Product Manager
Non-Professional Tools
Oops, left off my email to send the event log info, please send it to dan.fernandez.nospam@microsoft.com removing the "nospam" part.
Hi, I've replied to your given email address. Hope to get this sorted and playing with VS 2008 soon!
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