Cant see AI project in Visual Studio 2010

[DrBob]

Hi
In Visual Studio 2010 I cant see any templates for AI projects listed under new projects

Using:
- Advanced Installer 8.5.38139 / Enterprise
- Visual Studio 2010 Professional SP1
- Windows Xp SP3


The following may be relevant:
- I have previous installed and uninstalled Advanced installer 8.4.
- VS2010->Tools->Options dialog lists 'Advanced Installer Extension' but first time I saw it it seems to be looking for AI 8.4 not 8.5.
- I have Windows SDK 7.1 installed (normally configure VS to use 7.1 SDK)
- AI 8.5 was installed after VS2010
- I have also installed Wix and templates for new Wix projects show when creating a new VS project.

Am I doing something silly? Is there a way to fix that does not involve reinstalling VS2010?

[mihai.petcu]

Hello,

Am I doing something silly? Is there a way to fix that does not involve reinstalling VS2010?

No, it is not necessary to reinstall Visual Studio on that machine.

Can you please look in the following locations and specify the Advanced Installer version( 8.4 or 8.5 )?

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C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\AdvInstExtensionProjectEditor
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\AdvInstExtensionUtils

Then, from the following location can you please attach some screen shots with the folders( all files and subfolders included ) structure? Also, please ignore the ~PC subfolders.

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\

All the best,
Mihai

[DrBob]

Here is listing or files as requested. I am using AI 8.5. (8.4 has been uninstalled)

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C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\AdvInstExtensionProjectEditor\v4.0_8.5.0.0__230eb568607afe19\AdvInstExtensionProjectEditor.dll
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\AdvInstExtensionUtils\v4.0_8.5.0.0__230eb568607afe19\AdvInstExtensionUtils.dll


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip\AdvInstBaseProject.aiproj
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip\AIInstallProject.aip
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.ico
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4\~PC\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.vstemplate
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\AdvancedInstaller.ico
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\AdvInstExtensionVSIntegration.dll
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\AdvInstExtensionVSIntegration.pkgdef
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\AiVsixPreview.png
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest.1.back
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest.2.back
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest.3.back
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest.4.back
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\extension.vsixmanifest.back
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\ProjectTemplates
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\ProjectTemplates\AIProject
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\ProjectTemplates\AIProject\1033\AI_for_VS_Project_Template.zip

[mihai.petcu]

Hi,

Can you please try to manually delete this folder and see if the problem persists:

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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.4

All the best,
Mihai

[DrBob]

Deleted the folder, but still cant see any Ai templates on VS2010 new project dialog.

[mihai.petcu]

Hi,

We tried to replicate the issue on a Windows XP SP3 machine with similar configuration but unfortunately without success.

Can you please specify if in the Help -> About from Visual Studio menu bar, does the Advanced Installer Extension 8.5 appear in the list?

All the best,
Mihai

[DrBob]

Help->About lists Advanced Installer Extension 8.5.
Tools->Extension Manager / Installed Extensions - There are no extensions installed.

Shall I try:
1) Uninstall AI8.5
2) Deleting the AI folders you mention in first post
3) Reinstall AI
?

[mihai.petcu]

Hi,

Yes, please do so and let us know how it turned out.

All the best,
Mihai

[DrBob]

Tried uninstall & delete folders. Also cleaned out eny entries in registry to do with Caphyon. Reinstalled AI, but still not showing in VS2010.

Tried clean XpSp3 machine, install VS2010 (no SP1), then AI8.5 - works OK

Tried clean XpSp3 machine, install VS2010 (no SP1), then Wix 3.5 then AI8.5 - works OK

I give up. Any other ideas (other than rebuild machine)?

[mihai.petcu]

Hi,

The development team is currently working on a special .DLL that will help us investigate this behavior. Please contact us by e-mail to support at advancedinstaller dot com so we can send it to you once it's finished.

All the best,
Mihai

[Bogdan]

Hi Bob,

The problem appears because the content of the file "extension.vsixmanifest" was duplicated, as a result of repeated installs/uninstalls.

So to make VS work with our extension there is no need for the special DLL file, just go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 8.5\", edit the file for removing the duplicate entries, and the rest of the files, i.e. extension.vsixmanifest.1.back and so one, should be deleted.

Regards,
Bogdan

[DrBob]

Working.

Thanks

[Bogdan]

Always a pleasure Bob.

Have a nice weekend,
Bogdan