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I am getting an error message when I try to create a new multi-device-hybrid app. The error message is that, this template attempted to load component assembly 

'Microsoft.VisualStudio.MultiDeviceHybridApps.VSTemplateWizard, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral'.

And my output error message is : 

C:\Users\Rishi\Desktop\Winjs Files\WinJS ToDo Sample for Multi-Device Hybrid Apps\JavaScript\WinJSToDo\WinJSToDo.jsproj : error  : The imported project "C:\Users\Rishi\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.  C:\Users\Rishi\Desktop\Winjs Files\WinJS ToDo Sample for Multi-Device Hybrid Apps\JavaScript\WinJSToDo\WinJSToDo.jsproj
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I encountered this, along with several other errors after a fresh install of CTP2. For me it seemed that the installation process did not create a few specific directories for some reason, or for some reason it installed them in the wrong directory.

My solution was to create a copy of the 'vs-mda' & 'vs-mda-targets' directories, to get the entire build process to work (see below).

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\uxbwjkun.gjn\packages* ==> C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\

Once I had done this, I could open, and start building the new projects created by CTP2.

I did have a few other build errors relating to various node packages that were also missing, which I simply installed as I discovered them using 'npm install -g ' from the command prompt.

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    Thank you. This has solved my error. Now it is opening up a new project but when i compile, Its asking for nodejs path. "Path to NodeJs has not been specified. Please check that NodeJs has been installed and set the NodeJsDir environment variable before building." – Rishi Ravindran Aug 16 '14 at 05:36
  • NodeJS is installed by CTP2, I would just add it to your path (ie. /Program File(x86)/nodejs/) if it is not already there. You can test by just opening a cmd prompt, and trying to execute 'node' from any directory. – Smurf Aug 18 '14 at 03:40
  • I already had NodeJs installed but i didnt uncheck it while installing CTP2. I have checked the path and yes it is there. Still getting the error. – Rishi Ravindran Aug 18 '14 at 05:31
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    I have solved the error. I created one NodeJsDir environmental path and its working fine now. – Rishi Ravindran Aug 18 '14 at 10:14