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Polar Weasel
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I recently updated my Visual Studio 2017 installation from v15.9.7 to v15.9.9. I have a solution that contains 7 projects, 2 of which are Installer Projects. I've been using the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension v0.9.0 without problems with the earlier version of Visual Studio 2017.
Now when I open my solution file, Visual Studio displays a dialog stating "Preparing Solution" and hangs there until I kill Visual Studio.
If I rename the two Installer Project subdirectories in my solution folder, I can open the solution without problems aside from the two dialogs that indicate the Installer Projects can't be found. If I then rename the two Installer Project subdirectories back to their original names and click on each installer project in Solution Explorer and select "Reload Project" from the pop-up context menu, the projects load without errors. I can then build my solution and use the installer projects to create the installer .msi file and Setup.exe without issues.
I've tried running the "gacutil.exe" commands from "Update to 15.8.0 - projects won't load - Developer Community" and I've tried deleting the ".vs" folder in my solution folder. Neither of these fixed the problem.
The bottom line is that Installer Projects load and run just fine, *except* during when Visual Studio is loading the entire solution. I've spent the entire morning running searches with various keywords but I haven't found any other suggested fixes.
Hopefully someone else out there has seen this and has a suggestion ....
-Polar Weasel
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Now when I open my solution file, Visual Studio displays a dialog stating "Preparing Solution" and hangs there until I kill Visual Studio.
If I rename the two Installer Project subdirectories in my solution folder, I can open the solution without problems aside from the two dialogs that indicate the Installer Projects can't be found. If I then rename the two Installer Project subdirectories back to their original names and click on each installer project in Solution Explorer and select "Reload Project" from the pop-up context menu, the projects load without errors. I can then build my solution and use the installer projects to create the installer .msi file and Setup.exe without issues.
I've tried running the "gacutil.exe" commands from "Update to 15.8.0 - projects won't load - Developer Community" and I've tried deleting the ".vs" folder in my solution folder. Neither of these fixed the problem.
The bottom line is that Installer Projects load and run just fine, *except* during when Visual Studio is loading the entire solution. I've spent the entire morning running searches with various keywords but I haven't found any other suggested fixes.
Hopefully someone else out there has seen this and has a suggestion ....
-Polar Weasel
Continue reading...