<p>I'm brand new to DNN and I'm trying to get it up and running. I ran the starter kit which installed the DNN project to my Visual Studio templates just fine. But, when I try to create a new DNN project, I get a Visual Studio error and the project is not created. It looks like VS is trying to load the MSBuild targets from the following directory:</p> <p>C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications</p> <p>The problem is that I had installed Visual C# Express 2008, which I guess the DNN template thinks is my default IDE and thus is trying to look in the v9.0 folder. I uninstalled anything Visual Studio 2008 and still get the same error.</p> <p>My temporary solution was to create a v9.0\WebApplications folder and place my current <em>Microsoft.WebApplication.targets </em>file in there. I don't want to do this though.</p> <p>How can I change it so DNN looks to v8.0 to load the targets so I don't have to keep that dummy v9.0 directory?</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Patrick</p>

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