Can't find Web Form item in Visual Studio

Question

I can't seem to find a Web Form item when adding trying to add a new item in my ASP.NET web application project in Visual studio 17.0.1. Any help?

Jailhouse

How are you adding the new item? – Rufusrug

@AndrewMorton right clicking on the web application folder then selceting add new item, but i can't find it in the web and c# visual sections – Jailhouse

I can take no credit for this solution: Visual Studio : How to fix missing ASP.NET template for .NET Framework. Basically, add the individual component ".NET Framework project and item templates" in Visual Studio Installer. – Rufusrug

Answer 1

It was solved by modifying the installation in Visual Studio Installer and installing the ".NET Framework project and item templates" component under the "Individual components" tab.

Credits to: https://www.howtosolutions.net/2021/11/visual-studio-missing-asp-net-web-application-template-dotnet-framework/

Jailhouse

Answer 2

I saw this problem in "Visual Studio 2022 preview" too. It was solved by modifying and installing the ".NET Framework project and item templates" (in Visual Studio Installer):

Forsterite

Answer 3

Messing with the VS installer didn't work for me, but I found a partial work-around. It seems only the "direct menu" version of the Web Form creator still works. But it's only available in a Web Form Solution. Projects of type "Web Site" and other project/solution types may now lack it.

Open an existing Web Form Solution, or create a dummy Web Form Solution, create the page sets, and then copy them into your non-Web-Form projects.

To do this, right-click the Solution name, select Add, then Web Form.

Ahwaz