I'm trying to port my Extended Visio Template visual studio extension (multi-project template with custom wizard) to Visual Studio 2017.
I followed the steps for migrating extension, as clarified in the documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/how-to-migrate-extensibility-projects-to-visual-studio-2017
It builds and installs/works locally fine ("works on my machine") but the visual studio site refuses to accept it, giving dumb error message Invalid Template File in VSIX. May it be connected somehow to recent migration of "visual studio gallery" into marketplace (does it work at all) - is it me, or them? :)
Should I do something differently for VS 2017, if it's a multi-project template (the multi-project template for 2010-2015 seems to upload fine)?
Or maybe somebody can give me a link/reference to a working source code for multi-project template for Visual Studio 2017 (v3), that can be successfully uploaded to visual studio gallery?
Full source code is available on github, including manifest, and all templates (files with .2017 suffix)
Answering myself, for those who may fall into the same trap :) The problem appeared to be missing <Icon> element in one of the child projects.
After Microsoft migrated the gallery hub to Marketplace, it started go give you much better diagnostics on failures, helping to address those sort of things - now at least it is possible to figure out what the marketplace didn't like in your extension exactly :)
After adding <Icon> the extension was successfully published
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After a Visual Studio 2017 (RC) installation from scratch, I can't find a standard list of templates. I'm specifically interested in the Console Application (C#) template and the Windows Form (C#) template. I'm pretty sure I'm missing one of the Individual Components. I'm not sure which one is supposed to be installed and I don't want to install all of them.
Please see my list with components installed.
You need to install it by launching the installer.
Click the "Workload" tab* in the upper-left, then check top right ".NET-Desktop Development" and hit install. Note it may modify your installation size (bottom-right), and you can install other Workloads, but you must install ".NET-Desktop Development" at least.
*as seen in comments below, users were not able to achieve the equivalent using the "Individual Components" tab.
If you have installed .NET desktop development and still you can't see the templates, then VS is probably getting the templates from your custom templates folder and not installed.
To fix that, copy the installed templates folder to custom.
This is your "installed" folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
This is your "custom" folder
C:\Users[your username]\Documents\Visual
Studio\2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates
Typically this happens when you are at the office and you are running VS as an administrator and visual studio is confused how to merge both of them and if you notice they don't have the same folder structure and folder names.. One is CSHARP and the other C#....
I didn't have the same problem when I installed VS 2017 community edition at home though. This happened when I installed visual studio 2017 "enterprise" edition.
I found the path and wrote it in the options
My personal experience was that I had installed the Team Foundation Server client for 2017 first (was using it as a Proof of Concept for our QA team, while I was still using VS2015), then followed it up with Installing Visual Studio 2017 later to begin development.
What I ended up with on my Start Menu was a Visual Studio 2017 and a Visual Studio 2017 (2). The Visual Studio 2017 (2) had all the templates I was missing. Following the steps found in the First answer to this question (which were clear and easy to follow) did not fix my issue. I had thought that launching the client would upgrade to the Development Client, but it did not. I renamed it to Visual Studio Professional, and now have everything I need. Not sure if this happens to anyone else, but it was what happened to me, so I hope this helps someone.
NOTE: this topic is about installation issues with MS project templates.
I came here via a search in Google, I was looking for a missing Template option in Visual Studio 2017 File menu: in VS-2015, it was Export to Template and I used it to add my own standard Project Items.
Meanwhile, I found an answer.. my issue was not related to default templates and it does not need install things. The option Export to Template has been moved to the VS-2017 Project menu !
I had to reinstall .NET desktop development (throught Workload tab), even button was showing: Modify
After that Visual C# selection appeared :)
(And now i can use Console APP Template)
In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
My C++ templates were there all along, it was my C# ones that were missing.
Similar to CSharpie, after trying many modify/re-installs, oddly the following finally worked for me :
- run the installer, but un-select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete
- run the installer again, and select 'Desktop development with C++'.
- allow installer to complete
In my case, I had all of the required features, but I had installed the Team Explorer version (accidentally used the wrong installer) before installing Professional.
When running the Team Explorer version, only the Blank Solution option was available.
The Team Explorer EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Once I launched the correct EXE, Visual Studio started working as expected.
The Professional EXE was located in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
This solved my issue, and the reason was I had enterprise edition previously installed and then uninstalled and installed the professional edition. Team Explorer was not modified later when I moved to professional from enterprise edition.
I have a relatively large WinForms application that has been developed under Visual Studio 2013. I recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2015 on another computer and have been trying to get the project working under it.
My first issue/concern is that when I open the project for the first time in Visual Studio 2015 it does not ask me to "upgrade" the solution to Visual Studio 2015, it happily just opens the solution. I am used to having Visual Studio ask to "upgrade" the solution and create a new .sln file that is recognized as a, for example, Visual Studio 2013 solution instead of the old VS10 solution.
The actual issue I am facing is ~10 errors that seem to deal with cryptography. From what I can guess this has to do with the solution itself and what microsoft does with it in the background seeing as the most cryptography I use in the project is generating Guid.
An image of the errors
The one other issue I have is that, as I am not used to, I cannot double click on the errors them self to be lead to where Visual Studio thinks they are occurring. Thus I am not sure what is generating them or where to go from here.
Any suggestions?
This is a Windows 7 installation on an older model Lenovo Thinkpad. I do not have admin privileges on this computer either.
EDIT: So far I have tried to add <enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/> to the file Visual Studio 15 settings at C\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe.config, though whenever I try to edit it (even after a fresh restart) the file is "always" opened by another program. So it seems I cannot edit the file to turn off FIPS for Visual Studio 15.
I am still open to suggestions or clues.
EDIT2: I have managed to get <enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/> into the IDE settings with the help of IT (Using this article). Though this seems to do absolutely nothing, it seems that it is being ignored.
Another issue/clue here is that even if I create a brand new C# project in Visual Studio, when I try to compile I receive the same errors. So I have to assume that Visual Studio is using the SHA256 class somewhere "in the background". If I did have control over its usage I would try to implement #Kevin 's answer below.
I have found another possible solution on the web though I am not sure of its validity
VS 2012 now builds C# projects in a separate process that runs
msbuild. The entry you added to devenv.exe.config (that worked for VS
2010) won't be seen by this process. You should add the same entry,
namely
to the config file for msbuild; typically that's found at
c:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe.config"
I will try to get this done when I have time for the .NET 4.5+ msbuild.exe.config files and report back.
The solution I went with is outline here.
<enforceFIPSPolicy enabled="false"/> was added to a few files, namely
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\Bin\msbuild.exe.config
C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe.config
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Devenv.exe.config
Though I think the one that actually made it work was the first file.
You can't double click on the error and have it go to where the error is being thrown because it is being thrown inside the SHA256 class. If the FIPS compliance bit is set, any non-FIPS compliant .NET cryptography classes throw this error.
You have two choices to fix this...
First, you can just turn off the FIPS compliance bit on the machine where you are trying to run the app (not recommended).
Otherwise, you can update the code to use the FIPS compliant version of SHA256 (SHA256CryptoServiceProvider). This will require .NET Framework 3.5 or greater.
I have visual studio 2015 and InstallShield LE.
Everything was fine and suddenly I get "Incompatible" problem. "The application is not installed".
I was trying to reinstall the installsheild and it didnt help.
when i do right click on the project i click on "Reload project" and get this message:
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio is unable to open the following projects. The project types may not be installed or this version of Visual Studio may not support them.
For more information on enabling these project types or otherwise migrating your assets, please see the details in the "Migration Report" displayed after clicking OK.
- Setup, "C:...\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\TestProject\Setup\Setup.isproj"
Non-functional changes required
Visual Studio will automatically make non-functional changes to the following projects in order to enable them to open in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Project behavior will not be impacted.
Probably not what you want to hear, but do yourself a favour and uninstall it as fast as possible! It's an awful piece of software, full of bugs, pathetic or non-existent support, and a steep price if you are dumb enough to want to buy it!
This is the voice of bitter experience, backed up the opinions of a lot of other people who found the same thing.
I use Inno Setup, which is free, simple, is supported and works really nicely. Since discovering it, I've not had any problems.
Am doing a back end project in C# in Visual Studio. My team mate had done it using Visual Studio 2012 express and everything seems to work there. But when i used git to clone it to my system where am using Visual Studio 2013 express, one part of the project says its incompatible with the current version of VS. I could clean and build the project, but was unable to run the project. I searched and found that one solution is to go to Programs and features, select VS, right click,select repair. But even after doing this, the problem persists. Is there any work around?
When I was learning ASP.NET MVC by Informit tutorials I was in the very similar situation. I downloaded the sample sources that was created in VS2013 but had VS2015 installed. It was some kind of bug \ magic, but VS didn't recognized some libraries in VS2015 even they were installed. What is more strange is the fact that when I decided to totally rewrite the project line by line it worked!
Of course, I tried to clean, rebuild, reinstall NuGet packages.
So, if you have an access to sources *.cs, then just try to create new project and copy-paste code.
i'm newbie for mvc4 this is my first project (web app)
i get source project from my friends. they work normally.
when i open project VS2012 and then alert
Unsupported This version of Visual Studio does not have the following
project types installed or does not support them. You can still open
these projects in the version of Visual Studio in which they were
originally created.
- B2B.Web, "D:\ServiceClone\ServiceClone-1706\B2B.Web\B2B.Web.csproj"
and in solution explorer i can not load a project. at the project name it says incompatible
How resolve?
PS. I searched in google but I have not find a work solution. Sorry I'm not good at English :P
You need to install MVC4 on that machine first.
To download MVC4 set up Click here.
Did you try to open it in visual studio 2010?
and also try to Uninstall you Visual studio 2012 completely (save your projects if you want to). Then do a clean installation of Visual studio 2012.