[wix-users] (Sorry but) I've been unable to find the WiX templates on Visual Studio 2008 for Windows Vista x64

[Sean Hall]

WiX v3.8 was the last version to support VS 2008 -
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2013/09/27/visual-studio-2008-deprecated-in-wix-v3-8/

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Daniel Rodriguez <sadasant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> So on my windows vista x64 virtual machine I installed WiX, then I
> installed Visual Studio 2008 Full (I messed up the order I think), then I
> tried to create a new wix project by opening visual studio, creating a new
> project and looking for the WiX templates. I couldn't find them. Thus I
> uninstalled WiX and re-installed it, still not there, so I tried rebooting,
> but nothing changed.
>
> I did a couple of quick google searches and found that others have reported
> this issue in the past (at least on sites like stackoverflow and blogs),
> and the steps they recommended on doing seemed to be solved in the... wix
> targets? (I'm specifically referring to setting RunWixToolsOutOfProc to
> true, which seems to be forced to true under x64 systems in the x86 MSBuild
> WiX target files).
>
> So I'm really clueless, what can I do to see the WiX templates on my Visual
> Studio?
>
> I'm sure that you people have the knowledge to solve it, if possible, any
> hint would really be appreciated!
>
> Thanks for the time and best regards.
>
> --
> *Daniel J. Rodríguez S.*
> *http://sadasant.com/ <http://sadasant.com/>*
>
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