No templates available when creating a new project in Visual Studio

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"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?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '09 at 12:26

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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.

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answered Oct 29 '09 at 12:26

D. Veloper

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This also applies to express versions of visual studio – Murtuza Kabul May 02 '14 at 14:24
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For VS2013 use this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE – thd Jul 15 '14 at 09:47
For VS2013 as thd above said use this path C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE and I had to use devenv.exe /installvstemplates instead of devenv /installvstemplates – Vbp Jul 28 '15 at 21:28
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Yes it did work for me @r.hamd I tried it with just devenv /installvstemplates and nothing happened but devenv.exe did the trick but I am not sure why – Vbp Jul 31 '15 at 13:49
@vbp lucky you, i tried every possibility and it did not work for me, untill i repaired which took me more than two hours – r.hamd Jul 31 '15 at 21:31

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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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,

"devenv /installvstemplates"
"devenv /resetsettings"

And that worked out.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 04 '12 at 12:59

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@AlexanderN i have the same problem with vs2013 but this solution did not work – r.hamd Jul 30 '15 at 22:23

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '13 at 06:01

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Run Following command and it will restore templates. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE>devenv /installvstemplates

answered Mar 04 '13 at 06:01

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 10:34

This may not match the original posters exact symptoms but I was seeing a blank screen after clicking Create a new project (VS 2019). Discovered that the install of Visual Studio had 'finished with errors' (paraphrasing there - now I've fixed the issue I can't see the exact error message) anyhow digging into it I found that the C++ redistributable had not installed (even though I'm a C# dev that's still important to VS!)

If I tried to install this as a standalone I got an Access Denied error (even if running as Administrator). Digging into the VS install logs I found a similar report.

Anyhow after a fair amount of Googling a few responses pointed to Virus software preventing the C++ redistributable from installing (in my case McAfee). Once that was removed a repair of VS resolved the issue :)

No templates available when creating a new project in Visual Studio

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