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I've the same issue with a brand new, blank extension. Even fresh out the box, a VSIX template doesn't work.
Windows 11 Pro, Intel I9, Visual Studio Pro 2022
VSIX installer does not work on Windows 11
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Victor Havin
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Hi everybody,
I have a VSIX project that creates a VSIX installer targeting several versions of VS, including VS2022. When I run this installer on Windows 10, everything works as expected and my VS extension gets installed without problems. However, when I try to run the same VSIX installer on Windows 11, I am getting the following error:
5/11/2022 4:37:48 PM - VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.
As I mentioned before, the only difference is the Windows version. On windows 10 there is no problem.
My question is: Is it possible to change something in my VSIX project to make it installable on Windows 11?
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,446 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2022-05-13T07:59:22.543+00:00 Hi @Victor Havin , welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Please make sure that you have installed supported version(s) of Visual Studio on your Windows 11 machine. Besides, in the detail log file, can you see that the extension installer finds and lists the supported version of Visual Studio?
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Richard Slade 5 Reputation points2023-12-01T15:26:11.7366667+00:00 -
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,446 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2023-12-20T07:06:03.0633333+00:00 Hi @Richard Slade,
Are you using multiple accounts on your machine? If so, try to use the account which was previously used to install VS 2022 Pro to install this extension, will it work?
Did you create this new extension by using the Visual Studio Pro 2022 on this machine? If the extension was created by using VS on other machine, please try to use local VS Pro 2022 to create a new extension and let us know if the newly created extension can be installed successfully.
Besides, can you confirm that in source.extension.vsixmanifest file, the Install Targets has been correctly set to Microsoft.VisualStudio.Professional [17.0, 18.0)?
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Richard Slade 5 Reputation points
2023-12-20T10:24:03.1633333+00:00 Hi, Found the answer thanks. It all works fine if I start a command prompt as Administrator and install via the command line.
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S.Sengupta 24,636 Reputation points MVP2022-05-13T14:42:39.57+00:00 -
Limitless Technology 39,926 Reputation points2022-05-17T07:35:30.033+00:00 Hi VictorHavin-9077,
You'll need to Update all your VS Extensions to get it working in Windows 11, you can do it by following documentation steps here:- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/migration/update-visual-studio-extension
To get latest version of VSIX Installers you can refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/finding-and-using-visual-studio-extensions?view=vs-2022
If even after upgrade you face same issue, you can troubleshoot it in windows by which it can automatically detect and resolve compatibilities with Windows 11 by referring to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/troubleshooting-installation-issues?view=vs-2022
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Richard Slade 5 Reputation points
2023-12-20T10:25:23.2566667+00:00 Works by installing via the command prompt run as Administrator