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How to upgrade from VS 2017 to 2019?

VS 2019 is RTM, and I was wondering what's the proper way to upgrade from VS 2017, is there a dedicated 'upgrade' method, or is it uninstall and install? Maybe install and uninstall? What's the right way to do it without having to uninstall and…
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Visual Studio Installer Project: Installer and Application Icons

I've got an icon for one of my applications, which I've embedded in a resource file and is used as the main icon for the application. So far so good. However, I want to use the same icon for the installer project, and for the shortcut that the…
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not able to install visual studio 2022 using visual studio installer

I have downloaded visual studio installer from "https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/" once its downloaded the installer file, when I click on install it says "Getting visual studio installer ready" and nothing happens after that. my…
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how to create msi installer in VS2010 with custom licence validation

I have 2 functions:getLicence() which returns licencekey as string and validateLicence() which returns true if validation successful.I have following requirements I want to create msi installer in VS 2010 which calls that getLicence() and shows the…
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How to build setup project from .vdproj in Azure DevOps?

I have recently upgraded some of our windows application to VS2019 and created the setup project using VSInstallerProject extension in VS2019 . What I noticed is setup is not getting created when the Release pipeline is run , but I need the msi (or…
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Visual Studio Installer. Uninstaller shortcut error

I have made setup project with Visual Studio Installer. Project creates uninstall shortcut into User's programs menu. Setup works fine and uninstall shortcut uninstalls application. Shortcut points to msiexec.exe with arguments /x [ProductCode]. …
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Update OpenMP to higher versions in Visual Studio 2022

In VS22, OpenMP is still at version 2.0. Is it possible to update it to 5.0 or at least 3.0? I haven't managed to find any options in VS22 Installer which would allow that.
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Unable to update the dependencies of the project. The dependencies for the object cannot be determined

Installer project contains references of multiple DLLs. Out of which One DLL is referenced from GAC from which I am getting "Unable to update the dependencies of the project. The dependencies for the object cannot be determined." error on compiling…
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Adding launch conditions to Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects (check app is running)

I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects for my Hybrid Widndows Forms/WPF project. I need to make sure the user has closed the Application (an older version), if active, before the installer can proceed, can this be possible with a…
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Visual Studio 2017 installer fails to install KB2533623

I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2017 Community via web installer on my Windows 7 laptop and it fails, returning me this log: dd_setup_..._error.log (translated into English from me, since it was in German) Package…
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vs_buildtools installer 100% CPU

I attempted to update Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 and whenever the installer runs it runs at 100% cpu and takes an immense amount of time to work, if it all. What I've tried: Uninstalling the installer and visual studio 2017 Cleaning the install…
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How to update a VSI add-in to VSIX?

I currently have to update an outdated VSI add-in to the new VSIX architecture. The old VSI add-in runs on Visual Studio 2013 but not on Visual Studio 2015. Therefore I have to somehow "convert" the VSI add-in to VSIX. Has anyone ever done something…
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How should I ensure that my Visual Studio installer updates DLLs when installing an older version?

I recently noticed that my installer (VS 2008) does not remove the DLLs during uninstall. This is not too much of a concern to me but the following is a concern: when I install an older version of my software, it does not overwrite the DLLs -- it…
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How to override the server with now installer in visual studio installer 2015

I need to override the older version of installer form newer version.I am using installer for installing the windows services. Visual Studio Installer 2015. I change the installer with property "RemovePreviousVersion"= true, But in the installer…
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Visual Studio Installer for WPF Application install gets stuck

I've created a VS Installer Setup for my WPF app (Visual C#, .NET), and I set the app to be launched at the end of the installation. It works so launching, but the installer gets stuck at the end. You can see in the screenshot below that the app…
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