“the project type is not supported by this installation” error

Question

I have installed VS 2008 SP1 on W2k3 OS. After I installed ASP.NET MVC beta and tried creating ASP.NET MVC type project I get the following error.

\"the project type

Answer 1

In Windows 7 if you are not running as the local "Administrator" and have UAC turned on the install will silently fail. The solution is to disable UAC, reboot, and the install should succeed.