All we know about this charming way of detection Visual Studio path and others: wixvsextension
Also we know that VS2013 is supported in latest WIX builds.
But Visual Studio 2013 was released and I cannot find any documentation about VS2013_ROOT_FOLDER and VS2013_IDE_VWD_PROJECTSYSTEM_INSTALLED.
Are they implemented but not documented?
Yes, they're implemented but not documented. That's a bug.
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I have a number of projects created in earlier version of Visual Studio. These open fine in 2017, I can edit and save changes, but the solution file still has the icon indicating they are VB10, VB11 or VB14 solutions.
My concern is that in later versions of Visual Studio the solutions will no longer be supported. Can I force a complete upgrade to Visual Studio 2017? Is this necessary?
Can I compile Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 RC3 (CNTK) with VS 2017 Preview?
VS2017 does not work.
CNTK needs VS2015 update 3.
2015-1 or 2 also does not work.
Installation takes time so better to check.
To check Visual studio version
click Help => About Visual studio.
I don't think anyone has tried. It's probably OK, except if you want to compile the GPU stuff. Nvidia is currently not listing Visual Studio 2017 as a supported platform.
After I installed an extension to Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, VS crashes on startup. In previous versions there was a /safemode switch. I tried it but it seems to be no longer supported. What can I do to suppress loading of extensions in Visual Studio when it crashes (cannot disable extensions via extension manager).
Thanks
There is still a /SafeMode switch. If this does not help you need to do a repair on visual studio 2017
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/safemode-devenv-exe
I want to create my installer. But missing Other Project Type > Visual Studio Installer > Setup Project
They are not supported anymore on VS2012.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2011/03/17/visual-studio-setup-projects-vdproj-will-not-ship-with-future-versions-of-vs.aspx
VDProjects are no longer supported. Either:
Use older versions of visual studio to build existing VDPROJ project types (you can keep them in the solution)
If creating new installers, use a framework such as WiX which contains Visual Studio integration. Little bit of a learning curve, but a very good product (and free). This will produce an MSI from XML within a WiX project in visual studio after you install it.
http://wixtoolset.org/
I have Visual Studio 2008, 2010, and WIX37.msi (WIX 3.7) installed on my machine.
However, I am unable to see WIX project type in Visual studio 2008/2010.
Do I need to install additional tool/plugin?
I have Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 installed on my machine and I installed WiX v3.7 RTM from Codeplex. Things work okay for me. There is a known issue in VS2008 that requires you to set an MSBuild property called RunWixToolsOutOfProc to true. This occurred because parts of WiX v3.7 were incorrectly built against the NETFX4.0 and VS2008 runs on NETFX2.0.
Install v3.0 of WiX Toolset, to make it work with Visual Studio 2008. You can get it here: http://wix.codeplex.com/releases/view/44406
I don't know why it's not documented on their site but apparently you can't install the latest version (3.10 at the moment) and make it work with VS2008.