Visual Studio 2013 > New project > unspecified error (exception from hresult: 0x80004005 (e_fail))

Question

Can anybody shed any light on the above error? I\'ve tried with both Express and Ultimate editions of VS 2013.

I\'m running 64-bit Windows 7.

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Answer 1

Yet another cause and solution here.

First, I troubleshot by closing and opening the created project (which did exist, although with issues). On doing this I got a more meaningful error suggesting that C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\Web.Config was invalid XML.

I then replaced C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\Web.Config with a copy of C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\Web.Config.default and the issue was resolved.