Recently, I have not been able to create a new project in VS2005.

When I click “New Project”, VS2005 just hangswith the spinning vista cursor. It won’t recover no matter how long I letit sit there, and it never displays an error message.



Looked online and found this post that gave me the solution:

I just recently started developing in VS2005 and ran into the same issue so this is going to be more of a newbie answer. My problem started when I loaded the DotNetNuke StarterKit.   After not finding a quick answer I did stepped through what I had done and learned that apparently the more templates and the larger they are the longer it takes to load My files are stored on another server so the first thing I did was to move my templates to my local drive.

Steps I took was as follows.

1. Copied i:\visual studio 2005\templates folder into c:\visual studio 2005\ (you can use any folder you like).
2. Opened Visual Studio 2005 --> Tools --> Options
    a. Check Show All settings
    b. Select projects and solutions
    c. Point the two templates to the <newpath>\templates
3. You may also need to move projects to the local drive as well.

So, I had my settings in Projects & Solutions pointing to U:\drive at work.




Issue was that I was NOT connected to my U:\ drive, so VS2005 was hanging since it was looking for this drive, which was not accessible.

I changed settings to local C:\ drive. It worked!