CH2 p38 creating project 'site' ... project creation failed

jrbrown00 · June 27th, 2014, 05:18 PM

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013
Version 12.0.21005.1 REL
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.50938

Installed Version: Professional

Windows 7 Enterprise Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

I have been on the web and followed instructions on similar posts. I have repeated the instructions on P38 several time at different folder locations and I keep getting the same error.

"creating project 'site' ... project creation failed.

help? If a thread already exists, please give me the link. I have not found one.

thanks,

Jim

Imar · June 27th, 2014, 05:57 PM

Hi Jim,

Are you storing the site on your local C drive? Can you create other projects through File | New Project? Have you tried repairing or reinstalling Visual Studio?

Cheers,

Imar

jrbrown00 · June 27th, 2014, 06:44 PM

I am saving the file on my C drive in a folder I have read/write access to. I did go through the repair process. I did not try to reinstall the product yet. All of the examples were working fine up to that point in the book.

All attempts to create a new ASP.NET Empty web site failed. I have not yet tried any other choices, because I am going through the book to learn dot net.

Imar · June 29th, 2014, 07:20 AM

>> I have not yet tried any other choices, because I am going through the book to learn dot net.

Try to create a project using File | New Project. That's not used in the book but it may shed some light on what's going on.

Cheers,

Imar

jrbrown00 · June 29th, 2014, 06:07 PM

A couple projects worked. I am guessing that this is a permissions issue, but I don't know where to start.

Thanks,

Jim

Imar · June 29th, 2014, 06:12 PM

This has always worked for me, so I am not sure either where to start.

Where do you try to save your web site?

Imar

jrbrown00 · June 29th, 2014, 11:44 PM

I have tried at least two locations. The first is in my user folder and the second is where the book says to put them.

1. c:\Users\jbrown\d\df\d3\VS2013\BegASPNet\Site\
2. c:\BegASPNet\site\

Imar · June 30th, 2014, 09:11 AM

That should work just fine. Did you check these folders for permissions? What if you grant the Everyone account full control to your C:\BegASPNET folder?

Imar

jrbrown00 · June 30th, 2014, 09:30 AM

This is a corporate PC, so I cannot grant any sort of permissions.

All folders, including c:\ seem to be open to me. I can create a folder structure under c:\, so I would assume that VS2013 running as 'me' should have the same access. That is why I tried the folder under my userid.

Web sites have mentioned checking the logs, but I have not seen anything, even immediately after encountering the error. Do you know specifically where I should look?

Imar · June 30th, 2014, 10:22 AM

Not sure about the logs, but this may come in handy: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...?forum=vssetup assuming the same principles still apply to later versiosn.

Try running VS as an Administrator (right-click the short cut in the menu and choose Run As Administrator). You may need your network adminisrator to do this for you but that at least allows you to rule out security issues.

Cheers,

Imar