I have just installed Visual Haskell as per the instructions at http://www.haskell.org/visualhaskell/. I do not see Visual Haskell among the supported languages on the splash screen. On the other hand, there is a "Haskell Projects" folder under the new projects that can be created and the Visual Haskell documentation is apparent under the documentation tree rooted at "Visual Haskell Help Collection". Finally, if I try to create either a console project or a library project, the respective pop-up error messages

The application for project 'C:\Program Files\Visual Haskell\Templates\Projects\Console Application.cabal is not installed.
Make sure the application for the project type (.cabal) is installed.

The application for project 'C:\Program Files\Visual Haskell\Templates\Projects\Library Package.cabal is not installed.
Make sure the application for the project type (.cabal) is installed.

ensue. I gather from all of the above that the installation must be incomplete in some fashion. I should also point out 3 (possibly relevant) things about my environment:

  1. I am running both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .Net 2003 (the academic version).
  2. I do not have the Visual Studio .Net 2003 documentation installed. (I reinstalled VS .Net 2003 for the sole purpose of running Visual Haskell. So I deemed the documentation unnecessary. In this aspect the installation is incomplete.)
  3. I am running standalone versions of both GHC 6.4 and 6.5.

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