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Hi Team,
I have created on VSIX extension and that worked fine through visual studio on one my machine.But when we tried building the same on different machine we received the following error.
In this I have downgraded the "Microsoft.Visualstudio.SDK" to 15.0.1 version. And I am using Visual studio 2022.
Could you help on this please?
ERROR==>
|Error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets"
was not found. Also, tried to find "VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets"
in the fallback search path(s) for $(VSToolsPath) - "C:\Program Files
(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0" . These search paths are defined
in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Current\bin\msbuild.exe.Config".
Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that
the file exists on disk in one of the search paths.|
| -------- |
|Error MSB4226: The imported project "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets" was not found. Also, tried to find "VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets" in the fallback search path(s) for $(VSToolsPath) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0" . These search paths are defined in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Current\bin\msbuild.exe.Config". Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk in one of the search paths.|
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Hello @Deepak Rane (drane) ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Is your issue similar to this one?
I think some components were missing, or the specific version of VSSDK was not set correctly.
I tested locally but failed to reproduce this issue. Maybe you can try the suggestion mentioned in above thread. Add a property into your project file(.csproj file), like
<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion>17.0</VisualStudioVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
Sincerely,
Tianyu
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Test Test
I already have the same entry in my project. But still the issue persists, please suggest
Please see below line,
<PropertyGroup>
<MinimumVisualStudioVersion>17.0</MinimumVisualStudioVersion>
<VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
``` </PropertyGroup>
Hi @Deepak Rane (drane) ,
Thanks for your reply.
Can you confirm that the Microsoft.VsSDK.targets file does exist under this directory => C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0\VSSDK?
If you try to repair VS(VS Installer => More => Repair), will it work?
Besides, are you using the latest version of VS 2022?
If repairing still doesn’t work, please kindly try to reinstall the "Visual Studio extension development" workload.
Feel free to let us know the results.
thanks for the solution, the installation worked for the error, but now compiling the project again faced one more follow up error
C:\Users\xxx.nuget\packages\microsoft.vssdk.buildtools\17.8.2365\tools\VSSDK\Microsoft.VsSDK.targets(850,5): error VSSDK1048: Error trying to read the VSIX manifest file "obj\x64\Release\extension.vsixmanifest". Could not load file or assembly 'System.Collections.Immutable, Version=7.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Hi @Deepak Rane (drane),
You can try to download and install the NuGet package "System.Collections.Immutable" manually for the project.
Maybe the specific version of this .dll file was not installed, or the installation was not completely and correctly, so this .dll file is missing. Separately installing the NuGet package may work.
Thank you that worked.
@Tianyu Sun-MSFT I have one more related question raised. Can you please help there? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1720531/how-to-create-a-context-menu-with-vsix-project-for