VisualStudio 2017 Console Project template missing - c#

Yes, i've tried devenv/install, with no help.
So, I don't have the Console C# Project option when creating the project,
as shown here
Currently i have installed windows basic pack - there's my 'about' screen.
I have just reinstalled Windows because i was getting the same exact problem on old system, and because VS2015 had interface bugs and crashed consequently, but it didn`t help(as well as reinstalling both VS 2015 and 2017 numerous times)
Hope that you can guess whats wrong with my PC.

Visual Studio 2017 setup allows you to very fine-grainedly install various "components" separately, or groups of components delivered as "workloads".
You're missing the workload named ".NET desktop development", which contains among others these project templates. So re-run setup and install that workload.

You have a link, Open Visual Studio Installer in a New Project window that will allow you modify your installed components

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VS2017 Setup Project - Where?

I'm trying to create a setup project / installer for a C# project but can't find the 'setup project' template in VS2017.
In VS2015 it was under:
Other Project Types >> Setup and Deployment >> Visual Studio Installer
and I used that several times without any problem.
That is not present on my VS2017. Is there something else I need to install?
I've looked through all the installed options and also tried the Online section, but searching for 'Setup' only brings up 'Mastercam NET-Hook'.
I've also looked on Stack Overflow but all the questions appear to be about problems within a Setup Project and not creating it in the first place.
Google brings up lots of questions for earlier versions (2013 etc) but nothing I could see for VS2017.
What am I missing?
You must use the official Microsoft extension to do that, it's available here!
You need to install the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects". Open up MSVS Tools->Extensions and Updates (Extensions and Updates popup form appears) Online->Visual Studio Marketplace->Tools->Setup & Deployment. Then select "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects" (today, August 20, 2018, the version is 0.8.8).
NOTES: These are more of the classical MS installers we all know and love used since VS6 days.

“This project requires a Visual Studio update to load” error when creating a Xamarin.Forms Cross-Platform Application

When I create a Xamarin.Forms application using Visual Studio Community 2015 Community on Windows 8.1 it shows me this error on load:
A problem was encountered creating the sub project 'App1.WinPhone'. This project requires a Visual Studio update to load. Right-click on the project and choose 'Download Update'
I've installed all updates available and trying on a newly installed Windows.
Note: I had this error in Forms.
How can I fix this error?
Note: There isn't a Download Update option in Solution Explorer.
Navigate to where you saved the project files that you created in Visual Studio. Default location is C:\Users\PSDan\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects.
Open the project folder that you are experiencing problems with and navigate to C:\Users\PSDan\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\test\test\test.Windows folder. Inside this folder is a file called test.Windows.csproj.
Right click on that file and open with... using Visual Studio, by doing this it should detect the missing package and in my case automatically prompted to install the missing package.
I've been seeing similar errors for .Window or .WindowPhone and what I've observed is that it is due to missing SDK. Same might be the case with you.
Do you see App1.Droid appearing in the solution? (I guess NO)
Go to file explorer and locate App1.Droid.csproj (..\App1\App1.Droid\App1.Droid.csproj) and open this in a new instance. There it will pop up "Install Missing Feature" dialog and you can follow the steps to install missing components.
If your issue is the same as here:
Project required a Visual Studio update
then you may try and see if this solution works:
[Cause is] a mismatch of the target framework version and profile in the .csproj file. Despite the target framework being correct in the project Properties, they were not being correctly saved for whatever reason. Thus, when trying to install a utility library from nuGet, it left my project in the state you described.
The solution was to go by this site:
Framework Profiles in .NET
and find the correct combination, then manually edit the .csproj file to adjust <TargetFrameworkProfile> and <TargetFrameworkVersion>.
Installing Visual Studio Update 3 with selected features "Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1" and "Cross Platform Mobile Development" solved the problem for me.
Uninstall Xamarin completely, and reinstall it. That happened to me as well. I would uninstall Visual studio too. Install that first, then install Xamarin.
Edit: I know this sucks to do, but it was what the Xamarin team had me do to resolve it. As far as I know this is the official fix as of last week.

Error when building universal app for the store: "Manifest references file 'MyAppName.dll' which is not part of the payload."

I am having this error in Visual Studio 2015 when try to create app package for the store for a windows universal applicaiton:
Manifest references file 'MyAppName.dll' which is not part of the payload.
The error is in the ...\..MyAppSourcePath..\Package.appxmanifest file.
This is somehow related Manifest references file 'Bing.Maps.dll' which is not part of the payload but in my case the error shows up only when build package for the store and is related to the MyAppName.dll (where MyAppName is the name of the name of my application).
Another related question in MSDN: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f137091e-f550-4eab-b7e2-418149b97d40/error-appx0703-manifest-references-file-myappnamedll-which-is-not-part-of-the-payload?forum=windowsstore
It turns out this is known issue in Windows 10 SDK (Update 1.1). Reference: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/73f2d56d-9e8e-4b57-bcfa-0a972dfd75d7/update-11-generating-store-associated-package-fails-for-a-uwp-application-with-a-winrt-component?forum=Win10SDKToolsIssues
To workaround this issue, add the below ItemGroup in your project file and regenerate the package.
<ItemGroup>
<AppxSystemBinary Include="<Assembly Mentioned in the error>" />
</ItemGroup>
For example, if the assembly name is MyAppName.dll, include:
<ItemGroup>
<AppxSystemBinary Include="MyAppName.dll" />
</ItemGroup>
This ItemGroup can be expanded if the error still occurs for other assemblies, for example:
<ItemGroup>
<AppxSystemBinary Include="MyAppName.dll" />
<AppxSystemBinary Include="OtherAssembly.dll" />
</ItemGroup>
A bug fix for the Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps (v1.1.1) is released on 5 October 2015. This update requires that you already have the UWP tools v1.1 installed. You can determine whether you have UWP tools 1.1 installed by opening About Microsoft Visual Studio from the Help menu in Visual Studio. If you have “Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps 14.0.23309.00” installed, then you have the UWP tools 1.1.
To install this update
You must have an internet connection throughout the setup process.
For machines without Visual Studio
Install Visual Studio from https://dev.windows.com/downloads.
For machines with UWP Tools 1.1 installed
Run this installer (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=627168) to update the UWP tools to v1.1.1.
For machines without UWP Tools 1.1 installed
For Visual Studio 2015 Community, Professional, and Enterprise, you can install by
Modifying your setup to install the updated tools.
Clicking on the entry for the UWP tools in the Notifications pane.
Using the Extensions and Updates dialog to update Visual Studio.
Running the installer at https://dev.windows.com/downloads, which will add the updated tools to an existing Visual Studio installation.
For Visual Studio 2015 Express for Windows
Run this installer (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=624822) to update the UWP tools to v1.1.
To confirm that you have installed the UWP tools 1.1.1 update,
Go to Programs and Features in the Windows Control Panel, and click View installed updates.
Look for “Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (KB3073097)”, version 14.0.23315
Source: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/73f2d56d-9e8e-4b57-bcfa-0a972dfd75d7/update-11-generating-store-associated-package-fails-for-a-uwp-application-with-a-winrt-component?forum=Win10SDKToolsIssues
I had a hell of a time trying to work this out and it's a slightly different issue to what the OP posted but hopefully this will help someone else out because I couldn't find the answer on StackOverflow and finally found it here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/Sharepoint/en-US/65bc5999-662c-4eda-9967-e1b3031db8c4/error-appx0703-error-manifest-references-file-assetssplashscreenpng-which-is-not-part-of-the?forum=wpdevelop after many hours of mucking around and trying different things.
My error was the same except the file was for the various store and tile image files thus: "Manifest references file 'Assets\Store\StoreLogo.png' which is not part of the payload."
All the files did exist but turned out I was running Visual Studio on a VM using Parallels and the project opened through shared folders and using a UNC path. Ran the project from a mapped drive and it builds all good.
I do realise now that referencing UNC paths using a VM in Parallels Desktop has caused a few issues for me in the past. So just need to keep in mind that things should be run via a mapped drive instead to avoid this.

Visual Studio Freezes when I try to Add a file

I have an ASP.NET MVC application that I'm working on in Visual Studio 2013 Premium. I have three projects that are underneath my solution. If I right-click on any of the folders that are immediately under my solution and choose add, the flyout from the context menu displays fine and Visual Studio continues to function normally.
If I right click on any (I've tried a few but not all) folder underneath one particular project in Visual Studio, it freezes for about fifteen minutes. The cpu and memory usage when this is going on seem pretty normal.
If I right click on any of the folders underneath the other two projects and choose Add I get the flyout to appear showing the types of things I can add to the folder and everything works just fine.
What I've tried:
Disabling all Visual Studio Extensions that can be disabled. This didn't fix it.
Starting an instance of Visual Studio in Safe mode, this does fix it.
Any idea what I can try next? I'd hate to have to manually uninstall all of the Visual Studio extensions that can't be disabled, but this seems like the logical next course of action.
As far as Extensions I have:
Application Insights Behaviors SDK (XAML)
Bing Dev. Assistant (Disabled, installed after problem started)
Find in Solution Explorer (Disabled)
Company-created Build Tools (Disabled)
Company-created Core Tools
Company-created Scaffolding Tools (Disabled)
Microsoft Advertising pubCenter
Microsoft Advertising SDK for Win 8.1
Microsoft Advertising SDK for WP 8.1 XAML
Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools
Microsoft Visual Studio ASP.NET MVC 5 Scaffolding
Nuget Package Manager
Productivity Power Tools (Disabled)
Release Management for VS 2013
TFS Server Power Tools for VS 2013
TFS Sidekicks (Disabled)
TFS Process Template Editor
TFS Team Collab.
TFS Work Item Type Designer
Unit Test Generator (Disabled)
Visual F#
VS Extensions for Windows Library for JavaScript
WP 8.1 SDK Integration
Workflow Manager Activities
I don't need the WP 8.1 stuff here at work, but dabble with it at home. Since I'm logged into my MSDN account in Visual Studio at both places, would it uninstall it from my home PC if I uninstall it at work?
I'm doing a little further exploration. On the project that has the problem, when I try to do an add to a folder, I'm seeing Nuget.exe get fired off every six seconds over and over again. Where would I look to see where this is set up? I assume in the .csproj file.
Thanks
I disabled and uninstalled a bunch of Visual Studio extensions, which didn't help. I then cleared my nuget cache and that solved my problem.
I had exactly the same problem apparently, in my case it was a reference problem try deleting them one by one until the it starts responding in real time, i suggest starting with 3rd party dlls.

Can't See MVC5 Project Option in VS2012 [duplicate]

I've installed Visual Studio 2013 Premium (MSDN license) on my machine. Yet, the ASP.NET Web Application template is not there (except for Version2012, which offers me MVC 4, see screenshot below):
I have uninstalled and reinstalled VS2013 three times now. I've deleted the ItemTemplatesCache and ProjectTemplatesCache folders along with running the devenv /InstallVSTemplates and devenv /Setup to no avail. I've also checked to make sure web developer tools are installed. Under the \Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Web folder, I only see MVC 4 template files. Am I missing something? An extension or additional program?
Below I added a screenshot of the frameworks I have installed. Any direction or advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Jodie.
I think that "Re-install Visual Studio from scratch" is not a solution.
I have faced with the described problem and found much faster way to fix it:
First of all, try to repair Visual Studio installation (in "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" find your Visual Studio, right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot after (!).
Check if template appeared in the Visual Studio. If not, then: in the "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features" make sure that you have "Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.x" installed (I have 4.6 version). If not - install it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Run "Web Platform Installer" (it should be here: "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\WebPlatformInstaller.exe")
On the "Products" tab find the line "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2013" (make sure that it is not for 2012!). If line has "Add" button on the right side enabled, then click it and install the tools. Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back.
If line says "Installed", then you should repair it via "Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features", just find "Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 -Visual Studio 2013", right-click and select "Repair"). Reboot PC (!) and you should have your ASP.NET project template back!
Cheers!
After many hours of troubleshooting, these are the steps I took to fix the issue (on Windows 7 Ultimate). I assumed it was an issue with a corrupt installation and possible problems with registry keys, so I removed any and all Microsoft development tools using the following steps:
FULL VIRUS SCAN (just to make sure this was not related to a virus or malware). I used Microsoft Security Essentials
Downloaded Microsoft FixIt to help clean up registry keys as I deleted programs. After I deleted any program or program updates, I ran this tool to verify a clean uninstall had been done
Visual Studio 2010 - Ran the Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility and removed the program. Went into Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall a program > View Installed Updates and searched for 'Visual Studio 2010', then removed any updates associated with VS2010 (and ran the FixIt program after every uninstall to verify the registry keys had been wiped)
Followed this MSDN post to remove Visual Studio 2012 (paying particular attention to the 'Optional Shared Packages' and removed any and all programs under this list, again running Microsoft FixIt to verify the registry keys were wiped)
Followed this blog post from Shawn Harrison to remove all SQL server; also referenced these two MSDN posts Uninstall an Existing Instance of SQL Server (Setup) and SQL Server Files Left After Uninstall
Uninstalled Visual Studio 2013, along with all references to 'Visual Studio 2013' in programs and installed updates; used FixIt to clean up registry keys after every install
Last but not least, I removed all MVC Visual Studio-related tools, references extensions including Web Tools and Web Platform Installer
This solved my problem with missing templates :)
(I'm soooooooo grateful this was all done on an SSD, however, I think it would have taken 5x longer with an old-spinning HD)
Cheers, everyone!
Not the solution in your case, but I had a similar issue where I could not find the MVC templates. Eventually I realized that I still had .NET Framework 3.5 selected, which of course does not provide MVC... switching to .NET Framework 4.5 let me find the MVC templates again.
You already had 4.5 selected in the screenshot, but I'm just posting this here for others who might make the same mistake as I did.
Don't forget to check that "Microsoft Web Developer Tool" was actually enabled during installation see this related stackoverflow question: How do I open a csproj with ProjectTypeGuids 349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21?
"Microsoft Web Developer Tool" that was the problem for me
Have you tried updating the gallery
Tools>Extension and updates> Templates
To get up and running you could click Version 2012 under Web and get to the stock web applications templates which will provide you upto MVC 4
For MVC 5 you can either download Visual Studio 2013 Express Web, it roughly has the same ASP.NET features at Premium on MSDN License.
Update for Studio 2013:
Make sure you install express for Windows and not express for Windows Desktop. The Desktop version does not have the Web templates.
I had a similar issue with VS 2013 Web Express Update 3. After reinstalling stuff all week its fixed. I had to uninstall VS, delete the "Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" directory, and reinstall VS. There are other workarounds that are more precise.

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