Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Supporting Visual Studio Installer projects

If you are upgrading from an older version of Visual Studio (such as Visual Studio 2010) to Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015, you may find that, by default, these newer versions of Visual Studio no longer support Visual Studio Installer Projects (.vdproj files)!

Fortunately, though, Microsoft has heard our complaints and has addressed this problem by releasing a Visual Studio Extension for both of these IDEs to allow these project types to be opened once again!

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f1cc3f3e-c300-40a7-8797-c509fb8933b9

Once you have installed one of these extensions, you will once again be able to open your Visual Studio Installer Projects!

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