Windows Installer XML and Project Reference are missing

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Windows Installer XML and Project Reference are missing #5736

Open NateInMaine opened 6 years ago

NateInMaine commented 6 years ago

Bugs

If this issue is a bug:

Which version of WiX are you building with? Wix toolset ver 3.11
Which version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)?

Visual Studio Community 2017

Which version of the WiX Toolset Visual Studio Extension are you building with (if any)?

Votive2.017.vsix

Which version of .NET are you building with?

7.7.1

If the problem occurs when installing your packages built with WiX, what is the version of Windows the package is running on?

Windows 10

Describe the problem and the steps to reproduce it.

When following "Creating a Simple Setup" in the Wix section "Working in Visual Studio", I do not find the Windows Installer XML node. I only see a Wix toolset node. I did find a Setup Project option, and selected that option, under W3.

I right-click on the References node and choose Add Reference, but the Projects tab does not contain any projects. Nor do you provide the least bit of information as to why or how or where to locate the project.

barnson commented 6 years ago

Project references are for other projects.

rmubaldo-seismos commented 5 years ago

This appears to NOT be resolved. As of 12/06/2018, I downloaded and installed the Wix Toolset build tools v3.11.1 from the website and the Wix Toolset Visual Studio 2017 Extension (Votive2017.vsix version 0.9.21.62588???) both from the website and from Visual Studio Marketplace. When I follow “Create a simple setup”, Wix Windows Installer XML missing.

robmen commented 5 years ago

This issue is open and unassigned. That means it is waiting for someone to investigate the root problem, discuss possible solutions to that problem then implement the decided solution.

If you are interested in doing so yourself, our developer documentation provides a great checklist for getting started.

If you are not interested then you are waiting for someone else to become interested. If this issue has been open for a long time then there probably isn't much interest in this particular issue. In that case, you'll want to consider how to motivate others to fix it for you. This is a pretty good list of support options.

cpuwzd commented 3 years ago

This issue has been open for a long time and it just bit me. It's still a thing. The good news is that I solved my problem and perhaps, if you find this issue by doing a Google search, as I did, perhaps my solution will help you, too. My mistake was installing the Visual Studio Extension for WiX before installing WiX, itself. When you do this, you get no error, but its pretty much as if you hadn't installed the extension at all, except for one thing: If you try to install it again, you will be told that it is already installed. If you examine the install log details, you will see that the install failed because WiX was not installed first. You can uninstall the extension from inside Visual Studio, then reinstall the extension and all should be well. Enjoy!