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9/25/2006 6:57 PM
 
Allen Peterson

Joined: 10/13/2003
Posts: 3

I click on DotNetNuke.vscontent after expanding from Winzip and get the following error.

"Installation stopped because the directory for the ProjectType value did not exist.  The project type is invalid for your installation of Visual Studio."
 
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9/25/2006 7:06 PM
 
IT Guru 1998

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What environment are you using of VS, Database version, .NET framework version?  Is this the first install you are atempting? 

Thx
 
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9/25/2006 8:26 PM
 
Allen Peterson

Joined: 10/13/2003
Posts: 3
This isn't my first install, did 4.x before, this is just my first 4.3.5 one.  It's VS2005, .Net 2.0, DNN 4.3.5
 
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9/28/2006 5:01 AM
 
dr_samt

Joined: 9/9/2006
Posts: 1
I had this problem and I think it was because I had just moved my 'My Documents' folder to the server (So the project directory was on a network drive).

I changed the paths in VS2005 (under tools > options >project and solutions) so htey pointed to the C:

Tried installing the starter pack again and it worked.

I then changed the paths back to the network drives and installed it again and it worked.

Don't really know why this worked but hope you can use it.
 
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9/28/2006 8:55 AM
 
Duncan Ion

Joined: 9/22/2003
Posts: 47

I'm getting the same issue.

I have Windows XP SP2. VS2005 and VS2003 installed with IIS5 and SQL Server 2000.

I searched for repliesto this issue and it all apparently boils down to missing directories. The problem appears to have been 'in play' for over a year.

I found this in the asp.net forums and it appears to be a reasobaly definitive answer:

"
........  Here's what you do:

1) navigate to: C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates   <-------- location depends on your installation, of course
2) here you'll find two folders: ItemTemplates and ProjectTemplates; in each of these folders create a new folder called Visual Basic
3) your new directory structure should look like:

         Visual Studio 2005/
                Templates/
                        ItemTemplates/
                                 Visual Basic/
                                 Visual Web Developer/
                        ProjectTemplates/
                                 Visual Basic/
                                 Visual Web Developer/

4) re-run the installer and it should work now
"

I tried this - it didn't work. There were other posts that ran a variation of this with sub-directories called "Web" under "Visual Basic". These didn't work either [for me], although it apparently did for others!!!! weird.

Anyone got any further suggestions? If anyone can post a list of the actual files [which I presume are in the zip files] I gues I could "hand craft" the file structure, paste all the files and hope for the best......

[Why on earth can't the error message include the actual path in the message!!! That'd make it useful....]

regards,
Duncan.

 
 
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