>I don't know what happened, but there is no option to create VB or C# applications in my Visual Studio 2008 installation on my Vista Laptop. In other words, I can't create VB or C# applications. There are only two options:
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You can try resetting the menu options in VS. In the MS VS 2008 > VS Tools submenu click the option to open a VS command prompt. Then type:

devenv /setup