I have a server with something called Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) – ENU which only provides templates for SSIS work. I did not remove that before installing the VS 2008 Standard Edition (at the end of this there was no demand for a reboot). I then installed the Service Pack 1 for this VStudio product (again, no order for a reboot).
To my surprise, Visual Studio 2008 still exposes the limited set of templates for SSIS stuff. I rebooted and the IDE still acts the same with just this little set of choices related to SSIS projects.
Yet, when I visit Help -> About, I get a more complete looking set of components. In fact, the ProjectTemplates subfolder appears to have everything I selected during install (C#, VB, and Web).
Is there some way to gain access to things like “web application project” templates or do I need to remove everything and start over?
— EDIT update 6/24/2010 —
What a sad Setup package for a major product like Visual Studio 2008!
Here is what I discovered:
* VS2008 "shell" was the source of the whole problem described above
* I removed this "shell" (whatever that means) and that action alone did not fix the problem
* I removed the entire VS2008 Std Edition product
* I reinstalled the entire VS2008 Std Edition product
* Now all templates are present as they should be.
What a sorry installation package that could not somehow grapple with the situation that this “shell” thing was installed beforehand!!!
What a sad Setup package for a major product like Visual Studio 2008!
Here is what I discovered:
What a sorry installation package that could not somehow grapple with the situation that this “shell” thing was installed beforehand!!!