为什么Visual Studio Community 2015中的C ++项目只包含通用应用程序？

Question

First, let me show you what I have..

1. Visual Studio Community 2015 installed with customization as follows..

2. Windows 10 Home (x64)

I tried creating C++ project with Win32 and standard C++11 support but I couldn't find any under "File > New > Project > Installed > Templates > Visual C++ > Windows". (Universal Windows App is the only option here ...)

I wish that the subpaths under my "File > New > Project > Installed > Templates > Visual C++ > Windows" have all three items that Visual C# and Basic already have underneath ("Universal", "Windows 8", "Classic Desktop"). To be more specific, I wish my "Visual C++ > Windows" to look like this..

I know that I can code Win32/C++ using "Universal Windows Apps" template but Win32 support is limited and it comes with bunch of .Net stuff that I don't need. Please don't get me wrong, I do love .Net and WPF and I myself was once a C# programmer (WinForm in particular) and I think of .Net to be the future of Windows development but right now I need to start with empty project with Win32/C++ support.

Is this problem confined to Community version only? (anyone tried VS2015 Pro/Ent ? please let me know)

EDIT: Definitely can't be a solution to this problem.. but I found that I can circumvent the problem as below:

Here's how it works. Instead of searching for templates in "Installed > Visual C++ > Windows", I just go to "Installed > Samples > Visual C++ > Desktop" and Hurray! I see a Win32 "C++ UTF-8 Conversion Helpers" sample. I'll just use it to create projects and then discard anything unnecessary to make it empty. One hell of a pathetic approach just to get an empty C++ project :(

EDIT: I posted the same question on Microsoft Developer Network. After another day of trials and errors, this is the furthest I went. Still no sign of "Classic Desktop" under C++

Answer 1

Finally, I found an answer to this problem....

I was so stupid to keep on launching vs-community using the wrong shortcut.

If you want to see all the C++ templates (including win32,MFC,ATL,...), you must use the shortcut "Visual Studio 2015" not the "Blend for Visual Studio 2015" ( screenshot )

There are two shortcuts after you install Visual Studio Community 2015. As you see , they each point to the different target . So you need to use the shortcut that runs "devenv.exe" not the "Blend.exe".

But its strange that the first launch after the ISO installation launches " devenv.exe " but the web installer(vs_community.exe) launches "Blend.exe".

I guess I'm the only one here who made such a stupid mistake. May be I should delete this question if not so many find it useful.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, however, the only way i was able to get win32 c++ was to install the c++ packages.