Windows 11, Visual Studio Version 16.11.44, C++ The goal is to create a GUI based app with dialogs that can be modified via the drag and drop controls. The template used is: MFC App, builds apps with complex user interface that run on Windows. The options below that template statement are: C++, Windows Desktop.
Most of the defaults are accepted for everything except: Application type: dialog based, Use MFC in a static library, and ActiveX is disabled.

After clicking the Finish button, a dialog is presented complaining: Cannot open file. There are no details. When OK'ed the next dialog is displayed: "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component." This is on project creation. I have created a new top level directory with nothing in it but the new project and the error is the same. Suggestions please.