Hi,

I've created a template from a project using the Export Template wizzard. That all works fine. Now I would like to edit the .vstemplate file in order to rename the files of the project when it is created from the template. To do that, I've changed the TargetFileName attribute in the ProjectItem tag in the .vstemplate-file. However, as I do that, I get an exception when trying to create a project from the template. I doesn't matter if I use parameter names, i.e. $safeprojectname$ or any other name (except the original one) in the .vstemplate-file, it all crashes. Nor does it matter if I have spaces in the project name that I want to create.

The exception thrown says: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

I'm running this as administrator.

Any ideas?

After even more searching I actually found the solution on another forum here:
http://forums.asp.net/t/941773.aspx?PageIndex=1

The problem was that I hadn't changed the referencing file names in the project file to the ones in the TargetFileName attribute. After that, everything was OK!

After even more searching I actually found the solution on another forum here:
http://forums.asp.net/t/941773.aspx?PageIndex=1

The problem was that I hadn't changed the referencing file names in the project file to the ones in the TargetFileName attribute. After that, everything was OK!