>>>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>>>Sudden my VS 2005 is refusing to create a new project (any type). When I select New Project (web or otherwise), the hourglass appears, and the IDE goes into a Not Responding state. Even after several minutes, it never recovers. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed on the machine sense the last time I used VS. has anyone seen this before, and is there a cure?
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>>>>>Are you using any anti-virus/security software? If so, try turning it off temporarily.
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>>>>Ok, tried that, with no prevail.
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>>>>As soon as I can get my hands on the company's VS 2005 installation, I am going to run the repair. If that doesn't, then perhaps a reinstall.
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>>>>I have no add-in or anything else installed, so reinstalling is time consuming.
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>>>I wonder if there is a problem with the templates. Try running DEVENV /SETUP from the VS command prompt.
>>>Tim
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>>Tim,
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>>Where should execute the DEVENV command you are suggesting?
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>>I found some discussion about missing template files, and it was mentioned that they our under the My Document folder in the Template folder to VS. First, thing I discovered was that the folder existed, but not the templates. Second, In VS, under options, the User Template folder point to a non-existing folder. The path appears as if I have VS loaded on a Vista machine, not the XP it is.
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>Greg, the folder you mention is for user templates only I believe. If you don't have any custom templates then you probably don't have any there. The stock templates I believe are under the Common7/ IDE/ Template folder in the Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 install location. It is interesting the folder you are mentioning in the options section doesn't exist. I would suspect since when you click new project, what needs to be loaded is the templates in order to show you the new project dialog.
>Tim

I copied the folder structure from the Common for the missing folders to a development folders. Then from the Option dialog pointed them to the new development folders. That (so far) seems to have gotten me past VS hanging. I will let you all know how it goes. thanks