Visual Studio 2015 New Project error message "object reference not set to an instance of an object"

Question

_{Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:50 PM}

New installation of  Visual Studio 2015, on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1.          

I just tried creating a new project,  but when I select file new-->project, it immediately gives me an error message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Also during the install I am getting the following messages after the setup completed:

"JavaScript Language Service for Visual Studio | this product did not download successfully"

"JavaScript Project System for Visual Studio this product did not download successfully"

All replies (1)

_{Friday, December 18, 2015 9:00 AM ✅Answered}

Hi pm3870,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

From your description, I think that the JavaScript for VS components are not installed successfully.

1.Go to Control Panel >Programs >Programs and Features

2.Select Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and click on 'modify'.

3.Please check if the HTML/JavaScript Update 4 has installed on your machine.

If not ,please install it like the screenshot below:

 If the issue still persist, you need to use a healthy iso image to repair your VS.

To eliminate internet variables, I suggest that you download the ISO, verify the SHA-1 to ensure the ISO is not corrupt, then install locally.
VS 2015 iso Microsoft official download link:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx
VS 2015 iso files SHA-1 Values link:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/visual-studio-2015-iso-sha1-vs.aspx

PS: To make sure whether your package is corrupted or not,
please use FCIV.exe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290  to verify hash of the ISO.
Any discrepancy would indicate that the file was corrupted. Here is a blog for how to use it, you can refer to it.

Then you could use the healthy iso to do the VS repair

Best Regards,

Wen Xu

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