When I click on "new project" the new project window opens but there is not a browse button for selecting the folder for the new project.
When I click OK I get the following error message:
"The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B)"
The <Tools><options><Projects and Solutions><General> all of the text boxes are filled in with the default folder paths, and all are valid folders, which do exist.
Can someone help me to get started
Getting started with VB Express 2005
LokiSD
I am still getting the same error.
PeterH
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Try setting the Visual Studio projects location in the Tools | Options dialog by using the browse button and browsing to a different location, and let us know if you are still getting the same error.
Steve Hoag
Visual Basic Express
slarin
Visual Studio 2005 cannot create project if any folders on the path have "&" in the name. This has been reported as a bug on http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx feedbackid=5d245695-0028-4810-b953-ac1e05e420c2. The bug is being investigated.
You can use the work-arounds for this issue on the same page.
Best regards,
birch
This is a post about the same error http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=132775&SiteID=1.
Visual Basic Express by default creates your project in a temporary location and discards that project if you don't want to save it. On my machine (English Windows XP), that location is
C:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects
My guess is this path on your machine is somehow invalid. Would you please check what the equivalence path for this is
If you cannot figure out what the above temporary path is on your machine, you can do this:
- Use menu Tools | Options
- Select "Project and Solutions" on the tree view.
- Check "Save new projecst when created" on the panel.
After this, when you try to create a new project, the dialog should let you specify the full path. Use a valid path in this case (try C:\Temp to see if it can create the project).
Hope this helps,
jedatu
The path to Temporary projects is just as described.
Did the "Check "Save new projecst when created" on the panel".
Still have the same error.
Changed username from Peter&Helen to PeterHelen and rebooted.
Still have the same error.
Although the user name has changed, the username in the path is still C:\---\Peter&Helen\--- and windows will not allow me to change that.
I set up a new account called Peter and VB works fine in that.
I switched back to account PeterHelen, still have the error.
But if, in the create project dialogue I select a folder in mycomputer\shared\, VB works fine.
Similarly if I select a folder in mycomputer\Peter\, VB works fine.