No templates available when creating a new project in Visual Studio

Question

"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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.