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brentkrueger / VisualStudio2017PackageVisualizer

Implementation of the Visual Studio 2013 package visualizer as a Visual Studio 2015 extension. Version for VS 2015 can be found here: https://github.com/brentkrueger/VisualStudio2015PackageVisualizer
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Update package references for latest version of Visual Studio 2017 #7

Closed ColinM9991-zz closed 7 years ago

ColinM9991-zz commented 7 years ago

Using the previous Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools package on the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 causes the compilation to fail with the following reason Error The "FindInstalledExtension" task failed unexpectedly. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800700B7): ExternalSettingsManager::GetScopePaths failed to initialize PkgDefManager for C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Settings.ExternalSettingsManager.GetScopePaths(String applicationPath, String suffixOrName, String vsVersion, Boolean isLogged, Boolean isForIsolatedApplication) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Settings.ExternalSettingsManager.CreateForApplication(String applicationPath, String rootSuffix) at Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks.ExtensionManagerUtilities.GetSettingsManagerForDevenv(String rootSuffix) at Microsoft.VsSDK.Build.Tasks.FindInstalledExtension.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__26.MoveNext() PackageVisualizer

PR updates package references for support with the latest version of Visual Studio 2017.

daghb commented 7 years ago

Added these changes and the entire project compiled and ran on VS2017 15.3.5. Thanks, @ColinM9991!