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

[Daniel Rodriguez]

Thank you Sean! I'll use that version.

2015-11-11 19:16 GMT-05:00 Sean Hall <r.sean.hall at gmail.com>:

> 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.
> >
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> >
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