VS2010 - File New Menu is missing “New Project”

Question

A coworker just installed Visual-Studio-2010 Premium from MSDN. The install acted like it worked fine, but when he clicks the "File" menu, he only has "new file". On my installation, I see a "New" menu with a sub-menu that contains Projects, Files, Team Projects.

Any ideas of things to check or how to fix his installation. I think he did a repair already.

Answer 1

Try Tools + Import and Export + Reset. This will restore the menus to their factory settings. This may be necessary when you just installed a new version of VS, as in this case, it imports the menus of the previous version of VS so everything looks familiar. That is not always desirable.

If that doesn't pan out then the next step is to run devenv.exe with the /safemode command line option to ensure this isn't an add-in that's causing problems.

Answer 2

I know this is long over due, but I was just having the same issue on 2013. For some reason, VS was debugging, and that was the reason a new project wasn't available. Hope this helps someone else.

Answer 3

Had same problem. figured it out after reading this question. If you set up visual studio default setting for Visual Basic it doesn't have a new menu but resetting to default settings for Visual C# added it.

Answer 4

This problem occurs when the first launch was clicked "project Management Setting" instead to click "General Development Setting" and missed NEW Project and Toolbox.

To fix, do the following

1. click Tools Menu
2. Click Import & Export Setting
3. Select Reset all setting --> Next
4. Next --> select "General Development Setting" --> Next