Visual Studio 2012 failed to create project

Question

I just upgraded to windows 8 from windows 7. Visual studio 2010 broke down completely. Oh well. I removed vs2012 and installed visual studio 2012, where the pain starts. I h

Answer 1

As I mentioned in that question ,

I tried almost every solution I found.

I would like to share, what I have tried and did not work and what did work and solved the problem.

Here are the "solutions" which did not work for me but claimed that they worked for some people.

1) Removing FastPictureViewer Codec Pack (which was already not installed)

2) Having a modify permission to everyone for

c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\config\machine.config

and

c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config

3) Using Procmon to see broken registries

4) Uninstalling/reinstalling VS13 and all shared packages

5) Renaming the machine.config.default to machine.config

6) Running Visual Studio as an administrator

And this what it solved it:

Simply installed all the updates for windows 8.1 (not only the important ones, also optional updates as well) and restart. It sounds crazy after spending hours and hours but that solved my problem.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I had the same problem with Visual Studio 13. uninstalling/reinstalling VS13 and all shared packages did not solved the problem.

Finally I tried to run it as administrator, as explained above and it worked.