Visual Studio 2015 vdproj file into Visual Studio 2022 - installation

I'm migrating a Visual Studio 2015 solution to Visual Studio 2022. The solution includes a "Setup and Deployment" vdproj project and Studio 2022 says it is incompatible. Is there an Add-in that I need? How can I bring in the existing (2015) installation project?

You can download an official Microsoft extension that provides support for Visual Studio Installer Projects in Visual Studio 2022.
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects 2022

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SQL Server Integration Services Projects not available in Visual Studio Extensions

I am trying to install SQL Server Integration Services Projects in Visual Studio. I am doing the following:
Apparently it is not available in Visual Studio 2022, but I found it in Visual Studio 2019.
Visual Studio 2022 is not supported:
For Visual Studio 2017, I had to go to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/previous-releases-of-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt-and-ssdt-bi?view=sql-server-ver16 and download it from the link below:
SSDT for VS 2017 (standalone installer)
Download SSDT for Visual Studio 2017 (15.9.10)
Then I just installed it:

Is there a Visual Studio Installer Project type for Visual Studio 2019?

I am trying to build a VS 2017 solution which includes a Visual Studio Installer Project with the just released Visual Studio Pro 2019. Of course, when I tried to open the solution I got an error because there was not Visual Studio Installer project type in VS 2019. And, I cant find a place to load it from.
How do I add a Visual Studio Installer Project type in the released version of VS 2019?
Install the addin in Visual Studio 2019:
This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists
in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. To use
this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog,
select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer
Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page.
This extension is designed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and
Visual Studio 2019.

How to select the Visual Studio version to use on the build machine?

We have a buildmachine that currently has installed Visual Studio 2010 to compile our application.
Now we have moved to Visual Studio 2015 and developers have installed it on their machines and modified the solution so it works with 2015 but the previous versions will continue to build with 2010.
I was going to install Visual Studio 2015 on the build machine but I don't know how the build machine will know that the previous branches must be built with 2010 and the new ones with 2015. With some Msbuild settings? Just looking at the sln? By other means?
With some Msbuild settings? Just looking at the sln? By other means?
Open your .sln file with Notepad. Look for Format Version on the first line which correlates with a Visual Studio version.
•Format Version 11.00 is Visual Studio 2010
•Format Version 12.00 is Visual Studio 2013 && Visual Studio 2013
For visual studio 2013 and visual studio 2015, we could find the visual studio version on the third line. like this:
visual studio 2013: VisualStudioVersion = 12.0.30501.0
visual studio 2015: VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25420.1
As far as I know it does it looking at the ToolsVersion on every .csproj. VisualStudio is not required as MsBuild and the compiler come with the .Net Framework.

Visual Studio 2010 Express compatible with Community 2015?

Is Visual Studio 2010 Express compatible with Visual Studio Express Community 2015? I want do edit applications made in 2010 version.
Yes .. it's compatible .. The application created using Visual Studio 2010 will also open on visual studio 2015 ..

How to develop VSPackages in Visual Studio 2015 RC

I have installed Visual Studio 2015 RC SDK on my machine.
I don't have Visual Studio Package template when creating a new project. This is the screen shot of Visual Studio 2015 RC
As you can see no templates for Visual Studio Package.
This is the screen shot of my Visual Studio 2013:
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How to develop VSPackages in Visual Studio 2015 RC?
NOTE
I already have Visual Studio 2015 RC SDK installed.
In VS 2015, you start with a VSIX project, and then add Items, like for example a VSPackage - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/05/29/extending-visual-studio-2015.aspx

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