I have installed Visual Basic PowerPacks 10.0. It appears as a Clickonce Prerequisite in Visual Studio 2010 but in Visual Studio 2013 Professional It has the yellow triangle next to it and an error is generated when I build my project.
Any help appreciated.
I found a work around. I went to the bootstrapper directory located here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\
Visual Studio 2013 looks here for the bootstrapper packages: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\Bootstrapper\Packages\
Inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bootstrapper\ I found the VBPowerPacks folder and copied it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\Bootstrapper\Packages\
Not sure why VBPowerPacks does not automatically install in all Bootstrapper folders. That would have saved me a great deal of time.
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I just installed it but I don't know where it is. Can anyone help me? I've looked in a lot of places but I still don't know.
Look for devenv.exe, it should be at:
Visual Studio Community 2015
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE
Visual Studio Community 2017
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE
Visual Studio Professional 2017
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE
For VS2019 it's now at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
I would say instead of looking at a predefined location for the installation which might change in future what you should do is as follows -
Search for visual studio in apps search
Right click and select "Open file location"
Once you have this shortcut, Right click on it and select and open properties and see the target field. This is your executable path.
For me it is -
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Due to this link https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/compiler-options/how-to-set-environment-variables-for-the-visual-studio-command-line
Visual Studio location could be
\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Version\Offering or
\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Version\Offering
where Offering is one of Enterprise, Professional or Community, Version is 2019, etc
For VS 2022 it's now at (Program Files not Program Files x86):
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE
For VS 2020
"C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe"
In Visual Studio 2017's New Project dialog, there is no entry for Windows Installer XML (WiX).
Is it possible to enable WiX projects in Visual Studio 2017?
You can manually enable Visual Studio 2017 compatibility with WiX 3.10 or earlier:
Close all instances of Visual Studio.
Copy
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\WiX to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\WiX
(In the destination path, replace "Enterprise" with "Professional" or "Community" depending on your edition.)
You may need to provide Administrator permission:
The result will look like this:
Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX
Then execute the following command as Administrator:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv" /setup
(Again, replace "Enterprise" with "Professional" or "Community" depending on your edition.)
When you open Visual Studio 2017, WiX 3.10 and earlier projects will be compatible.
WiX v3.11.0.1507 provides full support for the VS 2017 Extension For WiX.
The Release Notes provide insight into why it has taken so long to provide the extension and compatibility with the extension and older versions of WiX
Note: You can use the "WiX Toolset Visual Studio 2017 Extension" with previous versions of the WiX Toolset but there is a forwards compatibility issue when building managed custom actions that is only fixed in the WiX v3.11 RC release. In other words, if you have managed custom actions and you want to use VS 2017 then you must upgrade to WiX v3.11 RC.
Edit:
The VS 2019 Extension is now available.
Edit:
The VS 2022 Extension is now available.
The Wix Releases Page has links to the other extensions.
I found that I also had to copy the WiX folder from "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft". Without this, I got an error trying to load my WiX project that one of the MSBuild targets files couldn't be found.
WiX now offers support for Visual Studio 2017.
All you have to do is:
Close Visual Studio 2017
Install the WiX Toolset Build Tools
Install the WiX Toolset Visual Studio 2017 Extension
The answer by Chris works, but on my machine, for some reason, the Wix folder in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\WiX" had only one template named "CustomActionCPP.zip". I had to search for a complete Wix folder in other older versions of Visual Studio. It worked for me by copying Wix from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\WiX\ProjectTemplates".
Also, had to apply the answer by Basim, by copying Wix from "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft".
I have installed ONLY VS2017 and had to copy from another machine where VS2015 was installed the mentionen folder of #Chris Schiffhauer. The same for the folder of #Basim mentioned.
Addiontally I had to copy the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wix Toolset 3.10\" because when I have installed WiX on my machine in this folder were still some assemblies missing.
Install the Wix Toolset Visual Studio 2019 Extension and reload the project
right-click the project folder in the path and uncheck the read-only
after install the Extension reload the Wix
use the below URL download
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WixToolset.WixToolsetVisualStudio2019Extension
I am pretty sure I installed VS 2012 Express on my new laptop a month ago. I even posted on Facebook about how I didn't like the default themes because the window borders were too light in color.
Now, I can't seem to find the VS 2012 Express installation. Where should I look?
I've looked for devenv.exe or any exe under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common\IDE and in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common\IDE.
Okay, I found it. The exe name is VWDExpress.exe and it is located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common\IDE
If you are using the Ultimate version go to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE
and look for "devenv" with visualStudio Icon .
I had the same problem. I found it in
Local Disk > Program Files 86 > Common7 > IDE > WDExpress
It wasn't an .exe when I found it, it was an application that I launched.
I'm trying to create my first Silverlight application. It seems that it can't be debugged because Visual Studio 2010 uses the x86 'Remote Debugger'. It that I also have the x64 bit version installed in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64
But I can't find how I'm supposed to make VS 2010 use
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64
instead of
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86
Thank you.
I am using:
Visual Studio 2010 on a x64 machine
Building a Windows Application
Targeting .NET Framework 4 Client Profile and x86.
I am deploying with ClickOnce.
I have installed the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)".
Here is my problem:
On an old project, on the project properties, Publish tab, Prerequisites... button, I open this dialog box. All the listed prerequisites have a yellow, triangular warning, stating, "Prerequisite cannot be found for bootstrapping". The effect is that the ClickOnce setup.exe cannot correctly install the prerequisites for users.
If I create a new, empty project from scratch, the Prerequisites box is empty.
Here is information about various folders:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages contains all the bootstrap packages.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages contains all the bootstrap packages.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1 did not have a Bootstrapper folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\SDK that has nothing in it but an empty v3.5 folder .
Environment WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\
Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\GenericBootstrapper\4.0\Path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages
Here is what I have tried:
I have tried copying the Bootstrapper folder from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\ to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1 but that did not make a difference.
I have tried copying the Bootstrapper folder from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\ to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\SDK\v4.0. That did not make a difference.
Any suggestions?
Try this:
make the prerequisites with bootstrapper manifest generator
then add them into C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages folder
If it works please notify by comment..