I am having serious problems getting started with DNN. I have DNN installed fine and can use the standard modules etc.However, when I try to install the starterkits for module development I am failing completely.

When I try to create the website from within Visual Studio or Web developer I do not see the DotNetNuke framework starter kit.  I have made sure I am looking for a Visual Basic project etc. I have done the proper installation, I have checked to see if the zip files are in the correct directory, etc.  If I install other starter kits, like the personal web site from Microsoft, they appear in the same directory as DNN, but they show up whereas DNN does not. I have tried reinstalling, getting the packages from a different mirror, going back to prior versions of the release kits. I’ve checked that I can open the zip files, that there are no permission problems.

I am out of ideas, anyone got an idea what I am doing silly?

Yes, I am looking in the right place. That I know because I have the same installation on my server and it shows up there. I can't use that machine for development any longer. All Visual Studio products will have to come off it very soon.

Something to do with the installation of Visual Studio and Web developer (I can't get either of them to find it) is not right, but for the life of me, I have no idea what it might be. The only difference I can thinkof is that I have applied VS SP1 to the workstation, but not the server (and not going to either, see above).

I tried this for the first time tonight and found the same problem.  After a few frustrating hours of troubleshooting, I found that the .vstemplate file isn't configured correctly.  The ProjectType element needs to be set to 'VisualBasic'.  I changed the DotNetNuke.vstemplate inside the DotNetNuke.zip file to the following and it fixed my problem.

<VSTemplate Version="2.0.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005" Type="Project">
  <TemplateData>
    <Name>DotNetNuke Web Application Framework</Name>
    <Description>This template creates a DotNetNuke Web Application</Description>
    <ProjectType>VisualBasic</ProjectType>
    <ProjectSubType></ProjectSubType>
    <SortOrder>11</SortOrder>
    <CreateNewFolder>true</CreateNewFolder>
    <DefaultName>DotNetNuke Website</DefaultName>
    <ProvideDefaultName>true</ProvideDefaultName>
    <PromptForSaveOnCreation>true</PromptForSaveOnCreation>
    <EnableEditOfLocationField>true</EnableEditOfLocationField>
    <EnableLocationBrowseButton>true</EnableLocationBrowseButton>
    <LocationField>Hidden</LocationField>
    <Icon>DotNetNuke.ico</Icon>
  </TemplateData>....