Is there anywhere I can download the ProjectTemplates folder for Visual Studio 2008? I accidently deleted it and the cache folder so need to get a copy of it!
What about using installation repair?
Try running this from the Visual Studio Command Prompt. It should allow you to fix the problem without going through the installation repair process.
devenv /installvstemplates
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I am trying to install Visual Studio Professional 2017 RC on Windows 10 but the installer reports:
A product matching the following parameters cannot be found:
channelId: VisualStudio.15.Release
productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Professional
Is this fixable?
I had the same issue and the following has helped me. A clean-up and removal of vs and installation folder was not enough in my case.
Here are the steps I've taken:
uninstalled Visual Studio (and other Visual Studio installations)
run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\InstallCleanup.exe -full"
removed all the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" folders
removed "C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\ folder
restarted system
In the end I think removing of Program Data location did the final trick. I had to run a repair after the successful installation to make VS Extensions work.
I previously installed VS 15 Release and removed it. I had the same issue and fixed it by removing installer folder from here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\ Installer
Please follow the cleanup steps and retry your VS install
See if you have this file on your machine: "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe"
If so, please launch it from an admin command prompt with a -full param:
InstallCleanup.exe -full
If not, please manually delete the "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer” folder
Relaunch the newly downloaded vs_enterprise.exe (or vs_professional.exe or vs_community.exe…)
Allow the first step to install the installer
Once the installer comes up and you can see workload choices (.net desktop and the like), close it
Go launch the same InstallCleanup.exe to clean up old build of VS
Then relaunch vs_enterprise.exe and install VS.
The problem that I had was because I had a Visual Studio 2017 layout and I wanted to make a Visual Studio 2019 layout in the same directory.
If you are creating a new offline installation layout on top of an old offline installation layout, you need to delete every file inside the layout folder (And only the layout folder not sub-directories).
This way the new (channel) information will be replaced and installation goes without errors.
VS 2013 Professional - Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4
All of a sudden, whenever I try to open a project (MVC project or Python project), I get:
The 'ProviderPackage' package did not load correctly.
The problem
may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation
of another extension. You can get more information by examining the
file
'C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml'.
In my AppData\Roaming, there is no 12.0 folder! In AppData\Local, there is a 12.0 folder but there is no ActivityLog.xml file.
When I ignore the message and press F5 to run, after lots of disk movement, Visual Studio simply closes and disappears.
I have repaired a few times and the exact same behavior persists.
When I try to run devenv.exe /setup or devenv.exe /resetuserdata, absolutely nothing happens. No error, no process is launched, nothing. Running devenv.exe without any parameters does launch VS.
What can be wrong? I hesitate to uninstall and reinstall if there is some other solution.
1 day later: Uninstalled VS 2013 and reinstalled, and then applied Update 4.
Problem is still the same for the MVC project: ProviderPackage did not load correctly, and when running project VS closes and disappears.
Last record in ActivityLog.xml says:
<entry>
<record>1120</record>
<time>2015/03/17 06:38:43.882</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>An exception was thrown during package instantiation and was caught in the package manager [ProviderPackage]</description>
<guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
<hr>8000ffff - E_UNEXPECTED</hr>
<errorinfo></errorinfo>
</entry>
Deleting ComponentModelCache from
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
works fine for VS 2015.
Note: You will need to close the VS before deleting this folder. Also replace 14.0 with 12.0 in folder path for VS 2013
Delete folder ComponenModelCache
C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\XX\ComponentModelCache
that worked for me
Open Command Prompt and use the following commands (if necessary, change the directory according to the installation folder):
cd c:\
C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetskippkgs"
Make sure the paths are correct at:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
Mine for example the VisualStudioLocation key changed from "C:\Documents\Visual Studio 2015" to just "Visual Studio 2015" which was problematic.
I can't leave a comment on Murat Yıldız's answer so this is the next best thing. His solutions works great. I opened the Visual Studio Command Prompt as an administrator and ran from the command prompt:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>devenv /resetskippkgs
It worked like a charm.
I also faced the same problem and solution for me was to run Visual Studio as an administrator.
Whenever I try to create a new project in VS 2010 I get the error:
New project/item dialog could not be initialized due to error:
Exception of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Dialogs.DialogInitializationException' was thrown.
And when try to open existing project visual studio 2010 restarts.
I had the same problem on my computer. After a long time searching I solved it by the following steps:
Close all instances of Visual Studio
Go to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE" (or whatever is your VS installation directory)
Run command devenv.exe /resetuserdata and wait until finished
Run Visual Studio
I can't find the former case. As you met an exception
Microsoft.VisualStudio.Dialogs.DialogInitializationException
I am suggesting you try the way below:
Run devenv /resetuserdata.
Delete the file:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache
and restart Visual Studio.
Close all VS instances and try the solution mentioned here:
Launch Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017 as Administrator
Go to VS 2017 installation folder, for example: pushd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise
gacutil -if Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0.dll
Open your control panel
Change
Regional -> Formats tab -> Format: English(United States)
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/727578/vs-do-not-work-with-finnish-number-format-on-w8-64-bit
It works for me :)
This problem can cause when you install an older version of Visual Studio nearby the current version. For example VS 2017 is installed on your system and you do force install of VS 2008.
I faced this problem many years ago by installing VS 2008 after VS 2010;
and today again I had this problem. Because I installed SolidWorks 2015 after VS 2017. SolidWorks had a Visual Studio 2008 inside its package that interferes my installation.
Just uninstalled VS 2008 and I'm done.
I found this to still be an issue in Visual Studio Community 2017, Microsoft released a work around that fixed my problem:
The work-around for this issue would be:
-Launch “Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017” as Administrator
-Go to VS 2017 installation folder, for example: pushd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise
-gacutil -if Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0.dll
How do you remove the following noise templates that don't even work?
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
To save a bit of time for 2010 users, the folder has moved:
...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates
For Visual Studio 2013, I found my template cache here:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache
Deleting them off of disk should do the trick. Where they exist will depend a bit on where you installed them. If you installed them for all users they will be at
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual studio 9.0\Common7\Ide\ProjectTemplatesCache
For a single user they will be at
%USERPROFILE%\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
EDIT
If InstallVSTemplates fails, it is likely one of the following. The one I can't help with is some program randomly dumping files inside of the ProjectTemplatesCache directory.
The other more likely cause is there is a bad template in the ProjectTemplates directory. InstallVSTemplates really just goes through this directory, and unzips all of the files into the ProjectTemplatesCache directory. You will have to search through this directory and find the .zip file which contains the junk files being added to your project Once you find the file, delete it, delete ProjectTemplatesCache, and then re-run InstallVSTemplates.
After manually searching for some of the custom profile templates(.vstemplate),I found them at the following location:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
It appears VS2010 installs some of the templates as extesions or the authors made it that way.I hope this helps someone.
May need to run "devenv /setup" at the run command to refresh the VS2010 after you delete the templates.
For me it was a matter of removing it from here using VS2017:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_45552a03\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete the bad/unwanted project folders from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
Clear cache
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete stuff from (perhaps not necessary)
C:\Users[Your User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and finally open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator and run
devenv /installvstemplates
For me the issue got resolved when I deleted the cache.bin file from ItemTemplatesCache folder. Full path of this folder is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
Also make sure you delete the template files from below locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
C:\Users\Default\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
C:\Users[NT-USERNAME]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
For Visual Studio 2019:
Extensions > Manage extensions > Installed > Uninstall
Worke for VS 2012 and 2015 :
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
worke in VS 2019 :
1- In VS2019, custom templates can be removed by deleting the template folder from %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{VSVersion}\ProjectTemplatesCache. Look for a {VSVersion} that begins with "16".
https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6SQ5.png
2- Delete What You Want From Templates Folder in {C:\Users\USERName\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates}
Notes :
{ProjectTemplatesCache} Or {ItemTemplatesCache}
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9BM9p.png
For Visual Studio Express 2010 you should delete all folders under
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VCSExpress\10.0\Extensions
For Visual Studio 2013 Community, you have to delete {program folder}\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\cache.bin after deleting all the unwanted files as described above. Afterwards VS will rebuild the templates listing in the New Project... dialog.
You could also try this:
dotnet new --uninstall <PATH|NUGET_ID>
It works for me in VS 2019 and VS 2022 to uninstall the Avalonia templates.
Description
The dotnet new --uninstall command uninstalls a template package at the PATH or NUGET_ID provided. When the <PATH|NUGET_ID> value isn't specified, all currently installed template packages and their associated templates are displayed. When specifying NUGET_ID, don't include the version number.
Examples
Uninstall the Avalonia templates
dotnet new --uninstall Avalonia.Templates
From MicrosoftDocs
If the template was installed by double clicking a VSIX file, it is considered an extension and can be uninstalled using the technique described by Hamid Behnam above. Otherwise, it can be deleted from one of the template directories mentioned above.
It looks like in each case we use different recipe. Unfortunately, commands line and VS menu command listed in this thread did not work in my case, which is MS VS 2019 Community Edition on Win7 x64:
First, close VS, remove unwanted *.zip files from all following folders, as well as hidden cache.bin file from the last \ProjectTemplatesCache folder (it will be restored at VS startup), then restart VS. Here are those 3 folders:
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
{User}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{Number}\ProjectTemplatesCache
Though it says on the IronScheme codeplex site that a plugin is included for visual studio, I have no idea how to get ironscheme working with VS...
Is it possible? If so , how?
Thanks
Firstly, you definitely need Visual Studio 2008 SP1, without SP1 it will cause problems.
Secondly, follow the instructions in the visual-studio.txt file.
Run from the command line:
If admin: RegPkg /codebase <absolute path of IronScheme.VisualStudio.dll>
If not admin: RegPkg /ranu /codebase <absolute path of IronScheme.VisualStudio.dll>
devenv /setup
Now start VS, and open a file with a 'ss' or 'sls' or 'scm' extension.
Cheers
leppie