Hi,

As i am a first time user on Visual Basic 2005 Express. I had followed the whole Starter kits for new project - after applying the template, surprisingly, there isn'tany form (Form1.vb[Design]) and tree view of such form under "Solution Explorer".

Since creating the project, the form should pop up automatically.

What should i do next?

Cheers!

Can you provide a little more information? What steps are you following and at what step are you at?

Hi Ben,
Being the beginner on VB2005 Expr Ed, the steps taken, were from the Virtual Tour (of 16hrs long), which i was watching the video (run on Media Player) and applying the steps into creating a desired project.

Initially, when Click on "New Project", selecting the template, changed the file name and click OK. Upon saving the template - it pops up an error message "The filename, directory name, or volume lebel syntax is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B)".

However, i had overcome it by following the steps,
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=136190&SiteID=1
Use menu Tools | Options
- Select "Project and Solutions" on the tree view.
- Check "Save new project when created" on the panel.

Whilst applied these steps, the error still pop up (every time i created a new project), but now i still can see the file has being created (but i don't think everything was still right).

After opening the file, i can't find "Form Designer" (where it should shown automatically). I had try it few ways in running the name. Don't seem to getting away the error.

So, no form designer, can't apply any Control keys (Is all grey out).

Thanks

Do you have admin permissions on the box -- or is the machine using network drives for any purpose?

These 2 things are the only things I can think of at the moment. This should still work as normal user, unless some package is trying to write to a predefined file location.