[Solved] The template specified cannot be found

[Richard Weeks]

Using Telerik Extensions for ASPNET MVC 2011.2.914, when I create a new Telerik MVC 3 Razor project in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (running on Windows 7 Ultimate), the following message is displayed in a Visual Studio modal dialogue:

"The template specified cannot be found. Please check that the full path is correct."

There's no additional information. The project directory is created but no files get placed within and nothing appears in the solution explorer. Dismissing the dialogue returns me to Visual Studio. There are no Errors, Warnings or Messages displayed..

I tried repairing the MVC extensions but no luck. What is wrong?

Richard

[Missing User]

Hi Richard,

The reason for this problem probably is an error during installation. The solution is to uninstall the Telerik MVC VSExtensions Package and than install it again.

Here are the steps:

1. Open Visual Studio 2010 and go to Tools -> Extension Manager...
2. Find Telerik MVC VSExtensions in the Installed Extensions section and click Uninstall button. After that restart VS2010 when it prompts to.
3.Go to Extension Manager... -> Online Gallery. In the Search Online Gallery field (in the top right corner) type "Telerik MVC VSExtensions".  Download and install theTelerik MVC VSExtensions package.
4.Restart VS2010 and try again to create new Telerik MVC application.

Let me know if that helps.

Greetings,
Dimitar
the Telerik team

[Richard Weeks]

I tried as suggested but it did not work. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling via Programs and Features but that didn't work either.

Error message is still the same.

Richard

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Richard,

Sorry about that!
There is a rare case when the VSIXInstaller (the tool, handling the installation of the extension packages in Visual Studio) leaves some files, thus breaking the VSExtensions. I guess you might have experienced that exact problem. Thanks to the XCopy deployment nature of the VS packages in VS 2010 this can be easily fixed.

Can you try the following steps, please?

1.    Close all Visual Studio instances
2.    Use Windows Explorer to check the following two folders for Telerik subfolders and delete them: %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
[VisualStudioInstallDir]\Common7\IDE\Extensions
3.    Visit the Visual Studio Online Gallery and download the Telerik VSExtensions you prefer (MVC for the Telerik MVC UI Extensions, and any others) to a folder of your choice
4.    Start a Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt As Administrator and navigate to the folder you downloaded the VSIX files to
5.    Run the following command for each package downloaded:
vsixinstaller /a [TelerikVSIX_FileName.vsix]

Let me know the result.

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
the Telerik team

[Richard Weeks]

That sounds to me like the correct line of thinking but unfortunately your solution did not work for me. I get the exact same error.
I think I might have to uninstall absolutely everything and build it all up again.

Richard