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I am trying to create a new project through following procedure but visual studio is throwing exception
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Hello, are you using the latest VS2022 Preview edition?
If you create other project types, does it persist?
You can restart your VS and try to change the project location.
I am getting the same issue:
When trying to create a new 'Standalone TypeScript Angular Project' named HealthCheck in VS 2022 I get an Error Message "Visual Studio Code: Illegal characters in path" when I click the create button to run the project for the first time. It will not create a project with all the necessary files, just a HealthCheck Folder with a HealthCheck.sln file which I cannot run. Thank you in advance and please let me know if you need any clarifying information.
Things to note:
-I am locating the new project in a blank folder.
-My Environment Variable PATH includes C:\ProgramFiles\nodejs
-I repaired VS Community and reinstalled all components Node, Angular etc...
-I reset my computer
-I reinstalled all the packages for all the components involved.
-VS 2022 will let me successfully create a project with any of the other templates
-I reset all VS 2022 Import and Export settings to default
My Versions:
VS Template: Standalone TypeScript Angular Project
Project Name: Health Check
Location: C:\Projects
VS Community: 17.5.3
Angular CLI: 15.2.4
Node: 18.15.0
Package Manager: npm 9.5.0
OS: win32 x64 Windows 11
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I am also facing same issue while creating Standalone Javascript React Project.
I have the same issue as the OP.
I am using Visual Studio Pro 2022, 17.9.3
Trying to create a project using the "Angular and ASP.NET Core" template.
I get: Illegal characters in path.
It creates some folders and a .sln file, but the .sln file is empty
there are no files in the folders it creates.
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I found the solution, described here on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65281107/visual-studio-2019-illegal-characters-in-path
The problem I had was that there was an empty entry in my user PATH. (Shown in the ‘Environment Variables’ dialog as one entry starting with a ‘;’ semicolon). I fixed that, quit Visual Studio and started it again (restarting it didn’t work), and then the problem went away.
Holy Cow what a pain. this worked for me. one of the issues I had was some program put the semi-colon inside the double quotes around the application path.
"c:\app path;"; c:\nextapp path\
I have the same problem, using Visual Studio 2022 17.11.4 (64-bit).
I’m trying to add a new Angular App project to my existing solution, but all I get is the error message ‘Illegal characters in path.’ No file or directory is written to disk.
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I had same error, i used dotnet command line:
dotnet new angular -o MyAngularApp