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Templates folder missing in Microsoft Visual Studio for C#

how visual studio looks like for me at the moment
This question was previously asked and I did click the "Open Visual Studio Installer" link. When installing, I also check marked the ".NET Desktop develepment move and clicked "Modify" but still no luck. Does anyone have a solution to this or have run into the same problem?
The version I'm using is Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community version on a Windows 7 Enterprise OS.

If you look in \Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates or \Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates, do you see any templates installed there?
Try re-registering your templates by issuing this command from the VS Command prompt:
devenv.exe /InstallVSTemplates

Is there a c# windows form Application in visual Studio 2015?

I installed Visual Studio 2015, and tried to create a windows form, just as I used to do it in the VS2010. I could not find a Windows form for C#.
How can I create one? Do I need to install another version or do I need a plugin or something?
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It seems you are opening new project in Blend. You have to use Visual Studio (not Blend).
Blend and Visual Studio are installed together with Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 . You probably run a wrong shortcut (which starts Blend).

The Checked Answer is correct however there is no explanation of how to solve this. I just came to the same problem, but figured it out. When searching in your file directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE
Then you can search .exe and it will come up with Blend and devenv. Or just scroll till you find devenv. devenv is the clickable application for visual studio community. :)

MonoGame templates in Visual Studio 2015

I just installed Visual Studio 2015 and now want to start a new MonoGame project (C#, Windows DX).
I got MonoGame installed, as well as XNA.
The problem is that the templates are not showing up in the New Project dialogue.
On Visual Studio 2013, they showed up here, they are also nowhere to be found aynwhere else in the Project tree.
So I searched for the templates, they exist in the location where they should be:
C:\Users\<user>\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\MonoGame
I tried running the devenv.exe /installvstemplates from the Visual Studio admin console, as well as devenv.exe /setup, for good measure.
After doing both several times, mixed with a few Visual Studio 2015 and Windows restarts, the project templates are still not showing up.
I also tried to clear the cache by deleting C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio and C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0, to no avail.
The MonoGame installer was customized to work with Visual Studio 2015, so I assume it should work somehow.
So, can anyone help me getting those project templates set up?

I found out why it wasn't working:
Apparently, the MonoGame installer puts the Templates in the wrong folder for Visual Studio 2015.
The correct folder for VS2015 is
C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 14\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
The MonoGame installer installs to C:\Users\user\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
So, when the folder MonoGame inside that folder gets moved to the first one, and the devenv.exe /installvstemplates command gets executed, the templates show up.

In case you work as standard user and run MonoGame setup as admin, MonoGane templates was installed only in Administrator account.
So I just make copy into my user \ProjectTemplates\Visual C#.
MonoGame Setup installation:
C:\Users\**Admin**\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
Correct folder is under my user account:
C:\Users\**user**\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
Then as answered above just run devenv.exe /installvstemplates from Developer Command Prompt for VS2015.

Blend in Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate in Windows 7

I have Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate. When first installation window popped up I could see, "Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate with Blend". I chose all options and installed successfully.
But I could not find Blend anywhere in Visual Studio when I opened it to create a new WPF project. What am I missing? I'm using Windows 7 OS. Thanks.

Have you tried searching for Blend in your start menu?
I have also installed VS 2012 Ult and my Blend works fine. In fact, I used it a few times to design Windows Store Apps

WP7 XNA+Silverlight Templates missing

I got an issue with Visual Studio, Silverlight 5 Beta SDK and XNA.
I did a fresh install of all Visual Studio components I need to create the application I have in mind:
Visual C# 2010 Express
XNA Game Studio 4.0
Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Silverlight 5 Beta Tools
However, when I start VS 2010 Express for Windows Phone and go to create a new project these are the templates I have:
Missing Templates
But there are a few templates missing.
How can I make appear the following templates:
Full list of templates
So what am I missing in this? I believe I installed everything and still nothing appears.
Is it because I'm using the express edition of visual studio? it doesn't make much sense though.

You installed that SDK correctly (uninstalled a previous installed SDK version correctly too)?
You could try and reset your vs2010 settings. This sometimes helps to restore missing project templates. You can do so like this:
Go to Tools / Import Export Settings
Choose to "Reset all Settings"
Restart Visual Studio
No guarantees but that helped me once before, so it is probably worth a try.

Just for others to know, you must have Visual Studio 2010 service pack 1(download link) before that.