Missing Cobol Template for VS 17.14.2

I am teaching a Cobol class and today we downloaded/installed Visual Studio 2022 Community, 17.14.2.  We also installed MicroFocus 2022_100.  No errors appeared but when I create a project, I don't have the int/gnt template I need to create our Cobol program.  Students with an older version of VS 17.12.4 are not having this issue.

Any help to resolve this would be great.  

Thanks!

Susan

Hi Susan,

Microsoft made a breaking change to the Visual Studio installer that affects all versions beginning with 17.13.4 which causes the COBOL templates not to be recognized. 

We are producing a fix for this problem, but it is not currently in any product release.

The following information is from a KB article on the subject:

There is a workaround that allows you to use Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13.4 or higher:

1. Close all instances of the Visual Studio 2022 IDE
2. Open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022
3. Issue these commands to determine the location of the PkgDef file of the COBOL extension (i.e. CBLPRJ.PKGDEF):

   CD %DEVENVDIR%\\EXTENSIONS
   DIR CBLPRJ.PKGDEF /S

4. Note the last command will return the location where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located. Here is an example:
   Directory of C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\XXXX\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\YYYY
   where XXXX is the edition of Visual Studio 2022 (e.g. Community, Professional, etc.)
   where YYYY is a random string as the name of the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located
5. Issue this command to change directory to the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located:
   

   CD YYYY

   where YYYY is the name of the subfolder identified from previous step
6. Issue this command to edit CBLPRJ.PKGDEF in Notepad:

   NOTEPAD CBLPRJ.PKGDEF

7. Search for the following line and delete it:
   "TemplatesDir"="\\\\"
8. Search for the same line a second time and delete it
9. Search for the following line and delete it:
   "TemplatesDir"="\\.\\NullPath"
10. Click File > Save
11. Close Notepad
12. Issue this command to apply the changes to the COBOL extension in Visual Studio:

    DEVENV /UPDATECONFIGURATION

13. Close the command prompt
14. Launch Visual Studio