[wix-users] Failed to load wixproj with VS2013

[Kaveesh Dashora]

What error do you recieve while opening the project?

On 22-Aug-2017 9:12 AM, "Helge Kruse" <Helge.Kruse at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> My description was probably poorly expressed. I lost the msbuild support
> for WiX projects is VS2013 after installing and uninstalling the WiX
> Toolset Extension for VS2013 together with WiX 3.11.
> For some reason I want to use WiX 3.10, but VS2013 fails to load the
> .wixproj projects without any readable reason.
>
> Is there any way to use VS2013 usable again with WiX 3.10 or to
> identify what's failing here?
>
>
> Best Regards
> Helge
>
> Am 18.08.2017 um 10:39 schrieb Kaveesh Dashora:
> > Pleaee ignore the earlier response, did not read the mail properly :(. My
> > bad.
> >
> > On 18-Aug-2017 2:03 PM, "Kaveesh Dashora" <kaveeshd at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > You need to install the Votive (Wix Visual Studio extension) separately.
> > The extension has been removed from the WiX installer 3.11 and is
> required
> > to be installed separately.
> >
> > On 18-Aug-2017 9:24 AM, "Helge Kruse" <Helge.Kruse at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have several WiX projects. The recent projects are built with WiX
> >> 3.10. I also tried to take a look at WiX 3.11 and found that the
> >> VS2013 integration has been remove from the WiX 3.11 installer and a
> >> VS has to be installed. After creating a new installer project I saw
> >> that this is only compileable with at least 3.11. I share the projects
> >> with other guys using a source control system, and I don't want to
> >> force them to upgrade their WiX installation to version 3.11. For that
> >> pupose I want to downgrade the WiX installation to windows 3.10.
> >>
> >> I uninstalled WiX 3.11 as well as the VS2013 extension. After that I
> >> installed WiX 3.10. But now I can't load the project in VS2013
> >> anymore. When I open the solution I get a message box.
> >>
> >>     One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly.
> >>     Please see the Output Window for details.
> >>
> >> The Output contains one line per project:
> >>
> >>     C:\Path\to\MySetup.wixproj : error  : Error HRESULT E_FAIL has
> >> been returned from a call to a COM component.
> >>
> >> The same solution and all containing WiX projects load okay on the
> >> workstations of the other guys. They are identical since they are
> >> synchronized by source control system.
> >>
> >> If I open a wixproj instead of the solution then VS2015 is launch and
> >> the wixproj are all loaded successfully. That's strange since the .sln
> >> file is for VS2013:
> >>
> >>     Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
> >>     # Visual Studio 2013
> >>     VisualStudioVersion = 12.0.40629.0
> >>     MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1
> >>
> >> The message about the HRESULT E_FAIL is not very helpful to detect the
> >> problem. How can I recover my workstation and work with VS2013 with
> >> WiX 3.10?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Helge
>