? New Projects Are Empty (No Files Generated)   

Hi,

Yesterday the New Project Wizard in Visual Studio 2003 stopped working.  It was
working as recently as last night at 9:33pm (the timestamp of the last project I
successfully created).

Not too long after that, newly created projects are empty. That is, no matter
what kind of project I make (I tried different app types, different templates,
different languages), it always fails to generate the source files; basically it
creates an empty project.

I just created an example project and it created only the SLN and VCPROJ-and NCB
and SUO-files. The SLN is normal but the VCPROJ is devoid of any source or
resource files. I've attached a copy of it (the project name is $$$).

Any idea what broke and how to fix it? I am _really_ hoping to avoid doing a
repair install because it requires a gig or so of free space and many, many
hours of 100% CPU load (which won't work at all right now since we *just*
entered a week-long heat wave). Oh, and everything else about VS (that I’ve
seen/used recently) seems to be working correctly.


Thanks a lot.

-- 
Alec S.
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date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 17:52:02 -0400   author:   Alec S. @

Re: ? New Projects Are Empty (No Files Generated)   

"Alec S." <@> wrote in message news:ezTted1xIHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday the New Project Wizard in Visual Studio 2003 stopped working…
>
> That is, no matter what kind of project I make (I tried different app types,
> different templates, different languages), it always fails to generate the
> source files; basically it creates an empty project.



Well it’s working now. I recursed through the VS install folder and regsvr32’d
each and every DLL. It’s a dirty solution, but it worked. I compared a copy of
all of VS’s registry entries before and after, and the most significant change
seems to be in some of the indicated paths, specifically the template ones. It
used to have things like this …\Foo\..\Bar but now it’s …\Bar. Technically that’
s the same, but that doesn’t mean it /will/ work. (Some other paths were changed
to non-existent ones. ???)

Maybe if it cools down in a week or two, I might do another repair or probably
just wait until I can do a whole restore at some point.


-- 
Alec S.
news/alec->synetech/cjb/net

date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:22:37 -0400   author:   Alec S. @