I recently installed (and registered) Inno Setup, Visual & Installer, Graphical Installer Wizard, and NSIS on my PC. For some reason, though, the V & I extensions menu in VS 2019 doesn't display the options for Inno Setup and NSIS, much less their submenus. What's wrong?! What's more, I need to know if the Inno Setup process/editor/wizard automatically detects and accounts for a program's dependency files and prerequisites. (It would be tedious to have to find and add them all manually.)
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Martin Prikryl
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This sounds like two different questions to me. It might be best to break the second query out into it's own discussion. – Andrew Truckle Jul 14 '20 at 15:42
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The answer for first part:
Starting from Visual Studio 2019, all extensions menus previously located in the Main menu were moved under the Extensions menu.
To clarify: This is a change in Visual Studio SDK = Microsoft changed how the extensions behave, this change applies to any extension, not only V&I.
This change also affects the Graphical Installer Wizard submenus and items (they are not present in VS 2019) so you need to launch them from GI NSIS/ Inno Setup installation directory (it is an Wizard.exe file).
As many people are complaining on this change, there is an extension which can change that to pre-2019 behavior: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Evgeny.RestoreExtensions#overview
Second part:
Inno Setup does not detect dependencies automatically, you need to do that manually.
There are many scripts already doing that, simply copy them, for example: How to detect and install prerequisite(s) using Inno?
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It is interesting that "ResOrg" still manages to list elsewhere in the menu. Must be a loophole! – Andrew Truckle Aug 09 '20 at 14:34
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What is ResOrg? To achieve pre-2019 behavior use the extension mentioned above. – Slappy Aug 10 '20 at 15:58
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See: https://www.riverblade.co/products/resorg/ It has standalone app and IDE extension. – Andrew Truckle Aug 10 '20 at 19:59
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Concerning the ResOrg menu location, they said to me: "Re the “Extensions” menu - that menu was added in VS2019, but previous versions used "Tools". As the ResOrg VS plugin source is common to all versions, the commands are added to the Tools menu." – Andrew Truckle Dec 14 '21 at 08:51