I'm a fresh-off-the-boat newbie to DNN (still staring up at all the tall buildings with my mouth wide open). Unfortunately, my progress was halted before I could even get started due to an install error that I could not find an answer to. My apologies if it has been thoroughly covered, but I could only find solutions to other fairly common install problems.

After watching a video tutorial where the author mentioned a similar error as well as the solution I finally learned that The issue was apparently caused from a missing folder in my Visual Studio 2005 directory - 'Visual Studio 2005/Templates/ItemTemplates/Visual Web Developer' was the culprit. Once I created that folder, the install ran like a champ.

Is there any known reason why I wouldn't have this required folder already? I would assume that somehow it was simply deleted if not for the fact that someone else had the same problem (and thankfully knew how to fix it).

I just thought I would take a minute to post this in case it can be helpful to anyone else. This forum has certainly been helpful to me.

-Jon