VS .NET would not create new project...

[jonwondering]

Hey, this problem appeared just recently... Whenever I go to Visual Studio .Net Start Page and try to create new Visual Basic project: 'Windows Application', it would not do anything... I have no idea why it stopped working, because it worked fine before... I also noticed that whenever I go to my current VB projects, it would not allow me to create and add a new form to the project, but it would let me do everything else. Does anybody have any idea what might be wrong (or what I might have deleted, lol) ?

Thanks,
Jon

 

[jubble]

Might be time for a rebuild.

I'm not aware of any configuration settings in VS.Net that would prevent a new project being created. From experience when odd things like these happen, even though you may install something to fix it, the problem or a related problem crops up again.

Have you installed anything recently that may have interfered with VS.Net? (Installshield, Decompilers, obfuscators) If so that might be the problem.

The only other thing I can think of is that you might be logging on as a different user that doesn't have the correct permissions on the projects directory (or some other component).

 

[jonwondering]

Yeah I've tried checking everything I could. I know that some programs might have messed it up cause I haven't tried creating new projects since installing them. And I am running as admin of this computer so I don't think its a permission problem...

But, I'll keep looking, maybe I'll come up with a solution.

Thanks for your post,
Jon

 

[Dimandja]

Some suspects to look at: anti-virus software, anti-whatever software, ...

Some of those programs can be wound so tight that useful scripts would not run, for example.

To troubleshoot, disconnect Internet and shutdown that type of software one by one, until you eventually find the culprit.

 

[Dimandja]

(continued)

It helps to uncheck boxes from your startup list. That way nothing starts at boot up, unless you want it too.

 

[jonwondering]

Yeah I have tried that too. I disabled almost everything suspicious. I even tried reinstalling VS.NET, and even that did not help. By now, I have no idea how to fix it

P.S.: This probably happened after I installed some Stardock programs like ObjectDock and DesktopX... Now they are no longer on my computer, but my earlier guess was that they probably did some changes...