Visual Studio 2022 integration?

[nbelyh]

Visual Studio 2022 integration does not seem to be available (yet?)
Would be nice to have it by the time 2022 is released.

Since it's x64, probably, there may be some issues.

Or maybe I am missing something?

[BMurri]

The WiX Toolset team has traditionally tried to time its releases to be near the public production release of the associated tool (so, usually not previews).

[ChrisShawK2]

Understood.
If a 'preview' version could be available earlier, though (even if only to let me load -- not run -- WiX projects), I'd install it right away, and then the real one when available...?

[rkieslinger]

Will Visual Studio 2022 integration support wix v3.xx?

[igalfsg]

is there a beta or something we can try for VS 2022 RC?

[robmen]

Not yet. It is not common for us to push to get Votive released ahead of VS RTM. But this PR is promising.

[drolevar]

@robmen Do you have an idea whether wix3 will be patched to support VS2022? If you can think of releasing an updated version of wix3, I can do this.

[robmen]

@drolevar here's how we are operating right now:

1. wix4 - this gets the attention. Things that distract us from this are secondary because we need to get wix4 done and released.
2. WiX v3.14 changes - if someone does the work to contribute a fix to wix4 and makes a very good case why the change should be in WiX v3.14 and asks really kindly to accept the change into WiX v3.14, then we've been taking changes. This is a softening of our original position of WiX v3.14 where we said "only security fixes because we need to focus on wix4". Unfortunately, reality is wix4 is taking longer than hoped. But again, distracting from wix4 slows wix4 and I want to get wix4 done (see the pattern 😝 ).

[robmen]

Blair's comment about us usually working to RTM not pre-releases is correct).

Bookkeeping: there are two PRs for me to reconcile and test against VS2022:

1. Add support for VS2022 VisualStudioExtension#19
2. Add support for VS2022 VisualStudioExtension#21

[frozenprakash]

Any news on when any version of Wix Toolkit gonna come out for VS2022 support?
Wix Toolkit is the only thing stopping me from upgrading my solution from VS2019 to VS2022 😞

Also,
VS2022 RC3 itself is there now and VS2022 full version will be out by 2021-11-08 globally,
So will there be any version from Wix Toolkit which will be out for VS2022 support before 2021-11-08? ⌛

[robmen]

It is not common for us to push to get Votive released ahead of VS RTM.