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visual studio 2010 missing template files

Apr 27 2012 11:16 AM
The problem is the setup and deployment installed templates are missing from my version of visual studio.net 2010 professional edition. I want to have these templates available since the programmer before me deployed the C# 2010 web application I am suppose to support using a 'setup.exe' and 'application.exe'. I do not want to change the method of how the application is deployed to production since I will only be making enhancements. **Note: I am the only programmer at this company.

I want to mention the following about my workstation:

1. I have Visual Studio.net 2008 professional edtion on my workstation. I do not remember the options I selected for the first install, but I was using it for a C#.net 2008 desktop application. The visual studio 2008 has the setup and deployment templates available.

2. I never removed Visual Studio.net 2008 professional edition from workstation.

3. I installed  visual studio.net 2010 professional and probably selected C# and web development projects for the initial install.

Should I do one of the following:

1. Is there a way to ask visual studio 2010 for the setup and deployment templates for web applications? If so, how do you accomplish this task?

2. Is there a conflict with visual studio 2008 and 2010 on my workstation? Do I need to change some setting?

3. Should I uninstall visual studio 2008?

3. sould I uninstall visual studio 2010 and reinstall it? If this is the case, when the visual studio 2010 professional is used for the first time, what options should I select if I want to work on? I do want C# and work on web application proejcts.

If you have other suggestions, can you let me know what they are?

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