[wix-users] Support for multiple installed copies of Visual Studio

[Sean]

Rob, I used the win38.exe which I downloaded from the wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/115492 site to install the wix tools.  As such VS was not running, so nothing written to the activity log. 
Sean

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From: "Rob Mensching" <rob at firegiant.com>
To: "WiX Toolset Users Mailing List" <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Support for multiple installed copies of Visual Studio
Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 1:44 PM

What did your VS activity log show? Is something colliding with WiX Toolset package?

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sean McClellan
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 2:25 PM
To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
Subject: [wix-users] Support for multiple installed copies of Visual Studio

* Which version of WiX are you building with?

3.8.1128.0

* Which version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)?

VS2012 UPD 4, VS2013 UPD5, VS2015 UPD2

* Which version of .NET are you building with?

4.5

* Describe the problem and the steps to reproduce it.

I have to support multiple projects built with different versions of Visual Studio. As such, I have VS 2012, VS 2013, and VS 2015 installed on my machine. I installed Wix Toolset from http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.8/stable. It says it installed fine, and status showed it 'registering' with the different versions of VS. However, when I attempt to open a VS2012 solution with multiple wixproj projects in VS2012, VS shows an error stating that Visual Studio does not have the project type installed. Furthermore, I do not see any Wix project templates when I go to create a new project. This is the same behavior on VS2013. I know that 3.8 does not support VS2015, but I only need it to work on VS2012, and the installer doesn't offer a choice of what versions to install on.
However, when I open VS Extensions and Updates, Wix Toolset does appear in the list. Lastly, I do not control the project, so I cannot change the version of Wix Toolset that is being used.

I have tried rebooting, installing Wix toolset as admin, all to no avail. I did see a post on the http://wixtoolset.org/releases/v3.8/stable website comments sounding like my issue:

The most basic thing required is for the Wix project templates to be installed and it doesn't install correctly. I think this was because I also had VS 2013 installed when the Wix installer was running. I ended up having to use VS 2013 and couldn't use VS 2012.
by braindon <https://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/braindon>  on Sep 1,
2014 at 5:18 PM 

Thank you for noting the issue. Unfortunately, we don't track bugs or feature requests here. Please go to http://wixtoolset.org/issues and file your issue there. We'll see it there.
Reply by robmen <https://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/robmen>
(Coordinator) on Sep 12, 2014 at 9:24 PM 

That is why I originally posted the question/issue to the issues forum. The issue was closed and I was told to post to this mailing list. 

Any help or insight would be appreciated. 

Regards,

-Sean


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