Microsoft Visual Studio could not be found.

Asked By TimothyAnderson 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/15/2011

I am creating a new project template for a Silverlight Project, on my Windows Vista machine and I get the following error message.

Since I am a newbie, I am not able to figure out how to fix this issue. I am hoping that somebody will help me, get rid of this error message.

 

 

Microsoft Visual Studio

 

could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80030002

 

(STG_E_FILENOTFOUND))

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Answered By LauraP 0 points N/A #114838

Microsoft Visual Studio could not be found.

Hi,

Please follow the procedures below to resolve this problem.

You must manually build a multi-project template and an associated Web project.

Visit the links below:

Website 1 How to: Create Multi-Project Templates

Website 2 How to: Manually Create Project Templates

Website 3 How to: Pass Custom Parameters to Templates

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #114839

Microsoft Visual Studio could not be found.

I think there is a missing file in your installation of Microsoft Visual Studio. Or maybe some of its files got corrupted that is why it can not be accessed by the application and it appears in the error message as missing component or missing file.

Try uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio from your computer then install it back. This will fix any corrupted files in the installation and will restore its settings back to default. Try it again after reinstalling the application.

If it does not work, try checking your computer for any possible errors. Use a disk utility application to check the system. There are errors in the file system that can cause programs to behave indifferently. For a much thorough diagnostics on the system, use a disk utility application like PC Tools Performance Toolkit, Norton Utilities, or Norton SystemWorks.

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