ASP .NET MVC Freezes Visual Studio during new Project Creation

Question

I'm using VS 2008 with SP1, on WinXP Pro, and I successfully installed the MVC package from Microsoft. I start a new project, select the MVC web project type, and give it a name and folder. When I press go it hangs forever.

The "ProjectName" folder is created, but nothing else is there.

I can create and open all my other projects without any issues.

Any ideas what's causing this issue? I can't try the MVC framework if I can't create a project!

Answer 1

I had a similar issue: Instead of uninstalling Visual Studio add-ons I tried the fix.

I found this blog post form the VS team: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/03/03/hotfix-available-for-asp-net-mvc-crashes-with-azure-power-commands-resharper.aspx

that points to a fix:

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=16827&wa=wsignin1.0

It Worked!

Answer 2

If you use Process Monitor & Process Explorer, you can probably find out what VS is waiting for.

PM: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

PE: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Answer 3

Give a try to ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2.