Visual Studio 2012: Unable to create new website or project

Question

User-723833757 posted

I recently installed VS2012 express for web

When I try to create a new website I get an error

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Dialogs.DialogInitiationException was thrown

I unistalled and re-installed, Same error

I am running windows 7, 4gb ram, VS2012, Sql2012

Also, every time I load web paltform installer, it allows me to install VS2012 for Web instead of saying installed

Any ideas on what is wrong?

Answer 1

User-1635195291 posted

Hi Bobby-Z,

Please try using any of the solution mentioned in this thread

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/95d7918a-dab5-450b-a1f7-12b144db453d/microsoft-visual-studio-cannot-shut-down-because-a-modal-dialog-is-active-close-the-active-dialog

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Jatin

Answer 2

User-166373564 posted

Hi,

For this situation, I would suggest you to manually uninstall Visual Studio,

1.In the Control Panel, open the utility for uninstalling a program, for example, in Windows 7, open Uninstall a program.

2.Remove all instances of Visual Studio 2012 products.

3.Uninstall any supporting products, in the link below. In non-English installations, you must also remove language packs for some of the listed products. You do not have to reboot until after you have removed the last package on the list.

At the same time you can follow the procedures to install Visual Studio 2012 for web  again,

# Installing Visual Studio 2012

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e2h7fzkw.aspx

and then re-install it, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 download here,

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Regards

Answer 3

User-1673382244 posted

Please see this vs2012 support question 

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/700411/exception-of-type-microsoft-dialogs-dialoginitializationexception-when-i-click-on-new-project-vs-2011-dev-preview#details