I have a project in a solution I am working on in Visual Studio 2012, and I get this message for one of the projects: "This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed, or does not support them." It is a vdproj. What does this mean and how do I resolve this problem
The correct procedure to resolve "Incompatible" issue with VDPROJ Projects coming from Visual Studio 2010 and 2015 in 2017 or 2019 is:
Enter Visual Studio .NET 2017 or 2019
2017: Click on "Tools" -> Extension and Updates -> Online
2019: Click on "Extensions" -> Manage Extensions -> Online
Type "Installer Project" on the search box
Click on "Install" in Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
Restart Visual Studio .NET and follow the instructions to install the extension
With this extension the old project (2010, 2015) is capable to work in (2017, 2019). VDPROJ are not deprecated, simply they are improved with a new extension, for more information about this please visit the oficial MarketPlace.
There is also the official:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects (2017 & 2019)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Installer Projects
if you can jump to VS 2013, 2015, 2017+2019, or 2022
But BozoJoe is right, its time to drop vdproj and move on to WiX.
vdproj is a MSI creation project for Visual Studio. Its been deprecated and most people have moved on to either WIX or NSIS or a professional grade installer creation tools such as Install Shield.
If you do not require an installer for your product just exclude the vdproj project from the solution and continue with your life
for fun if you want to try to transition right away to wix, try this powershell script https://github.com/chrisoldwood/vdproj2wix
Visual Studio 2017 can use the Visual Studio Installer. It is NOT a default. You have to run InstallerProjects.vsix. You can get it at Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects. I have used it and worked great, at least for a windows GUI project. It's worth a shot before you get into the Install Shield intricacies.
if You use Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project (Vs2017).
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project may be disabled after an update.
Tools -> Extensions and Updates..
Click Installed
Find and Select -> Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
do Enable
Restart Visual Studio
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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.
I am upgrading my project from visual studio 2010 to visual studio 2015
please tell me is there any need to upgraded the ms-build project.
Follow these steps to upgrade project created in earlier versions of VS this may help you:
In VS, on the File menu, click Open and then click Project/Solution,
Web Site, or File, depending on the kind of project you are
upgrading.
In the Open Project dialog box, select a project file, and then click
Open. If VS detects that the project or file was created in an earlier version of Visual Studio, the Visual Studio Conversion Wizard opens.
Complete the Visual Studio Conversion Wizard.
Refrence
is there any need to upgraded the ms-build project?
The answer is No. That because since start with Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio team made a number of exciting changes to MSBuild for Visual Studio 2013. Now the 2013 version of MSBuild will ship as a part of Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. See this blog MSBuild is now part of Visual Studio! for more detail info.
You can find the MSBuild.exe from the directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin
Since it ships as a part of Visual Studio 2013, just as Michael said, MSBuild upgrade should happen with the VS installation. So you do not need to upgrade the MSBuild separately.
Hope this helps.
My visual studio 2015 cannot build 2010 platform toolsets. It says:
The build tools for Visual Studio 2010 (v100) cannot be found. To
build using the Visual Studio 2015 (v140) build tools, either click
the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then select "Upgrade
Solution...". Install Visual Studio 2010 (v100) to build using the
Visual Studio 2010 (v100) build tools.
I do not want to upgrade my project or switch the toolset. I have visual studio 2010 installed. It builds the 2012 projects inside visual studio 2015 fine. 2012 also finds the 2010 build tools and builds 2010 projects fine.
Is there a visual studio setting where I can point it to the Visual Studio 2010 directory so that it correctly finds the build tools?
I have tried reinstalling 2010, 2012 and 2015 in that order.
tldr; Visual studio 2015 wont build 2010 projects even though I have visual 2010 installed.
Install this service pack: https://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2015-update2-vs
Fixed the issue for me. Released March 3, 2016 so it was unavailable at the time of posting.
according to this documentation from microsoft, the toolset is a per-project setting. So you need to change it for all of your VS2010 projects inside VS2015.
To change the project toolset
In Visual Studio, in Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for
your project (not for your solution) and then choose Properties to
open your project Property Pages dialog box.
In the Property Pages dialog box, open the Configuration drop-down
list and then select All Configurations.
In the left pane of the dialog box, expand Configuration Properties
and then select General.
In the right pane, select Platform Toolset and then select the toolset
you want from the drop-down list. For example, if you have installed
the Visual Studio 2010 toolset, select Visual Studio 2010 (v100) to
use it for your project.
Choose the OK button.
does that help?
I had installed installshield in my system but when i go to visual studio-> file->new project , there is no installshield in new project...why its like that can any one give me a solution for that.I am using visual studio Express 2013.
Thank you
Visual Studio Express doesn't support extensions / addins / project templates and so on. Switch to Visual Studio Community Edition or better.
I will like to create something similar to: http://www.add-in-express.com/docs/net-excel-rtd-servers.php
When I open visual studio I do not have that project type even though I am running it as an administrator...
what do I have to do so that I can have that project type (ADX RTD Server) on visual studio?
You simply need to have Add-in Express for Office and .net installed. There is no trial version for Visual Studio 2010, but if you have VS 2012, you can download a 60-day evaluation version of Add-in Express from Visual Studio Gallery:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/A4880BFE-A230-44B6-9D23-86AFAA1A2997