Visual Studio 2012 Can't find templates

Question

After installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on top of Visual Studio 2012 RC and creating a new ASP.Net Empty Web Application project, I am unable to add a New Web Form to my project. When attempting to add a new Web Form, I receive the error message:

Could not find a part of the path ....\WebForm.zip\WebForm.vstemplate

This problem is listed on the connect site here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/758581/could-not-find-itemtemplate-path

I can't register the workaround there, so I'm going to do it here, so hopefully someone else can find this. (Anyone know why the d@mnded register link doesn't work?)

Update: I had to do this for the Class template also: (My path)

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\ide\ItemTemplatesCache\web\csharp\1033\Class
Copied the Class folder and renamed it Class.zip

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Answer 1

To workaround this issue:

1. Open an explorer window to the path. In my case the path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\ide\ItemTemplatesCache\web\csharp\1033

2. Make a copy of the WebForm folder and name the copy WebForm.zip.

3. Try to add a new web form to the project. It should succeed this time.