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

Question

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

Answer 1

Hi @A.J. Marchese, 

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

Have you tried changing the project location to other Drive?

Besides, please go to your environment variables and check if there are invalid paths. Please correct it. 

Meanwhile, I could find the same feedback from other community users, I suspect it is a known issue with Angular project.

You can also report it to Product Team in Developer Community. 

Thanks for your understanding!

Sincerely,

Anna

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