I am going to lead this with what I think is going on, so if not we can relook at this.  I think, for whatever reason, your starter kit install failed.  Here is how you get rid of the files that the starter kit places.  One think to note here is I am not sure this is all of the files, but I am relatively sure it might be.  Within Visual Studio, select Tools then Options from the top bar.  This will bring up your configuation options.  In this window select the + next to project and solutions, then select general.  You should now be able to find where you templates are located.  There are files in both the Item Templates and Project Templates that are installed by the starter kit.  To get rid of the old ones, go to the directories for both the Item and Project Templates.  Within both those directories double click on the Visual Web Developer directory, then visual basic.  For project Templates you will need to delete the Zip for Dot Net Nuke.  I had two, if you delete all of them it will take out all starter kits that have been installed.  In the Item Template folder you repeat the same folder clicks but delete, Module_VB.zip and Skin.zip.  Also in the Item Template folder you will need to click on Visual Web Developer then on CSharp.  You will need to delete Module_CS.zip from this folder.  This removes all of the files that I think it puts on the computer with the starter kit.  It should give you a clean install and you should be able to rerun the starter kit and be good to go.  Also, if you use the IDE for module development and want to modify your modules to have your company name in it you can modify these zips to reflect that.  Hope this helps and I will check back to see periodically. 

There is definately something wrong with the 4.5.1 starterkit. I just installed the 4.4.1 starterkit and the everything installed fine. I then decided to install the 4.5.1 starterkit - overwriting the 4.4.1 starterkit - and DotNetNuke Web Application Framework disappeared!!

I think the Core team may want to take a look at this.

Cheers!

First let me thank you for your comments nightsoul. I have been grappling with this issue for a while. I am using the Visual Studio 2005 Professional. My IT department did reinstall the OS and all my stuff on my system not that long ago. When my IT department  did this they misnamed my machine, they then corrected my machine name after I installed Visual Studio, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition, and all my tools and utilities (Red-Gate Professional Toolbelt, SourceGear Vault, and so on).

Before this, everything worked fine up to 4.4.1 (which still works for me). I did use Vaults diff tool to look at the different vstemplate files included in the DotNetNuke.zip file and noticed that the reference to the DotNetNuke.webproj file - while included in the zip - was not in the vstemplate itself; whereas it is contained in the 4.4.1 DotNetNuke.vstemplate file.

So I changed the vstemplate file to include the DotNetNuke.webproj file and inserted it into the DotNetNuke.zip file, uninstalled everything, and reinstalled the templates using the DotNetNuke.vsi installer. But no love. The DotNetNuke Web Application Framework and all the other templates do not show up in Visual Studio.

Why would the 4.4.1 installer work and the 4.5.1 installer not work if it had something to do with my installation of Visual Studio?

Finally, I installed the 4.4.1 starterkit and checked VS. The DotNetNuke Web Application Framework shows up fine. I tehn copied the DotNetNuke.zip file from the 4.5.1 starterkit into the ProjectTemplates/VisualBasic folder and checked VS again. The DotNetNuke Web Application Framework entry disappeared! This definately has something to do with the DotNetNuke.zip file.

Whe million dollar question is what.

Cheers!