Why CPP Project templates don't appear in visual studio 2022?

Question

Installed the latest version of VS2022 with the workload desktop development with c++ (Accepted all default settings and checkboxes) , The downloading and installation were completed successfully.

When I launched visual studio 2022 to create a new project, there are no CPP project templates as you can see, reinstalling and repairing didn't help, How to fix it?

Answer 1

This solves my problem C++ Project templates don't appear in visual studio 2022?

1. Make sure Visual Studio is up to date.
2. Open Visual Studio Installer. Press more and then repair.
3. You should be able to see the template once it finishes.

Answer 2

I copied the VC folder from

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates

to

C:\Users<user>\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates

and restarted the Visual Studio. Now I see all the C++ project templates.