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Visual Studio 2017 error when creating new SDL project

Gary Hess

I have Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. I installed the SDL SDK. When I try to create a new project in Visual Studio using the "SDL Custom Batch Task Plug-in 2017" template, I get this error:

Argument can't be null

Parameter name: node

Any ideas what the problem can be? I just installed Visual Studio a few weeks ago and have create a few Windows Forms App to learn my way around Visual Studio.

I will attach the "ActivityLog.xml" file from Visual Studio. There are 5 errors. Maybe the last one is relevant?

The solution file was found to be empty.

Thanks, Gary

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    Here are more details:

    - When I installed the SDL SDK, it finished running silently (which I found surprising). I tried turning off my anti-virus, but same result again (so that is not a problem).
    - I changed the "User project templates location" to the following directory: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\SDL\SDLAppStore2017\5.0\ProjectTemplates"
    - I see four ZIP files in the ProjectTemplates directory. Do those files need to be unzipped by me?
    - Visual Studio is showing me the four SDL templates, but when I select one of them to use, the new project creation either fails silently or there is the error I mentioned above.
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    Here are more details:

    - When I installed the SDL SDK, it finished running silently (which I found surprising). I tried turning off my anti-virus, but same result again (so that is not a problem).
    - I changed the "User project templates location" to the following directory: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\SDL\SDLAppStore2017\5.0\ProjectTemplates"
    - I see four ZIP files in the ProjectTemplates directory. Do those files need to be unzipped by me?
    - Visual Studio is showing me the four SDL templates, but when I select one of them to use, the new project creation either fails silently or there is the error I mentioned above.
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