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madskristensen / WebEssentials2017

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Component install loop after restarting VS #18

Open TechArtistG opened 7 years ago

TechArtistG commented 7 years ago

...or report a bug:

Installed product versions

Visual Studio: VS 2017 Enterprise 15.3.0 Preview 2.0 [26602.0.d15rel]
This extension: 1.5.8

Description

The installer get into an endless loop of installing dependencies every time you run VS 2017

Steps to recreate

Download the install package. Install it.
Run VS2017, it installs a bunch of dependencies
=The installer ask you if you want to restart VS, if you do exactly the same list of dependencies are installed and you're asked again if you want to restart...loop...
If you select cancel it appears that you can use VS as usual and everything works fine

Current behavior

Explain what it's doing and why it's wrong

Expected behavior

Installer works correctly

madskristensen commented 7 years ago

There is a bug in 15.3 Preview 1 where the extension manager API is broken. They have fixed it already and the fix will be in preview 2 or 3

fmorriso commented 7 years ago

This bug is still happening in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3.0 Preview 2.1, as of 2017-06-21.