Living in the Tech Avalanche Generation

Recently I had installed Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 & Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and seemingly for a few days there were no problems. After a couple of days I added Developer Express DX Core and again for a couple of days - no problems. Then suddenly this:

This dialog window was telling me that VS.Net 2008 was not recognising my item templates when I requested "Add New Item" from the context menu in the Solution Explorer for a a given project. Immediately I checked in the "Options" menu and everything looked fine. After some research I tried restarting Visual Studio in safe mode and also tried resetting Visual Studio by running the startup arguments devenv /ResetSkipPkgs. Sadly both these approaches failed to make any difference. Finally I re-installed Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 and that sorted out the problem and VS was once again recognising my templates. Whew!