Installation of VS 2022 Extension corrupts VS

[beinhaerter]

• Which version of WiX are you building with?

3.11.2.4516

• Which version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)?

VS 2022 Professional, 17.2, German
running as regular user

• Which version of the WiX Toolset Visual Studio Extension are you building with (if any)?

3.11.2.4516

• Which version of .NET are you building with?

?

• If the problem occurs when installing your packages built with WiX, what is the version of Windows the package is running on?

Windows 10 Enterprise 21H1, German

• Describe the problem and the steps to reproduce it.

Extensions/Manage Extensions -> Select Wix extension for installation -> Close VS -> Windows asks for admin credentials -> installer runs -> start VS again ->
VS dialogs open

When VS opens, then there are no installed extensions listed under Extensions/Manage Extensions.

VS repair install does not help. VS uninstall + reinstall helps.

• Describe the behavior you expected and how it differed from the actual behavior.

I expect no error message and that the installed extensions are still visible and working.

• Additional info

The extensions are displayed when running VS as an admin. They are not displayed when running VS as a regular user.
ActivityLog.zip

[beinhaerter]

Works after running

devenv.exe /ResetSettings
devenv.exe /ResetUserData
devenv.exe /SafeMode

But then still VS showed "my installer (incompatible)" and "The application is not installed." in the solution explorer. Fortunately after right-click "load project" it seems to work.

[MehdiKacim]

Hi, this issue not working for me...

[MehdiKacim]

Hi, this issue not working for me...

In the end it worked.
You just have to be careful: empty the Windows temporary folder beforehand and between each command that launches VS

[robmen]

Visual Studio owns the VSIX installation experience. If this keeps reproducing for you, you might consider opening an issue with them at https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com . It doesn't seem like you should have to reset Visual Studio regularly.

[beinhaerter]

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Installation-of-wixtoolset-extension-cor/10057006

[robmen]

There seems to be an installation issue in VS17.2 as we haven't changed Votive so the failed installation behavior is new in this release of Visual Studio. Here are other issues that are also sometimes seeing installation failures in VS 17.2:

1. Wix toolset visual studio extension not getting installed with Visual studio community edition  #6786
2. Unable to install Wix extension into Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 (17.2) #6795
3. Random failures installing Votive #6797

We need the Visual Studio VSIX installer team to explain what changed (or fix their bug) via: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Installation-of-wixtoolset-extension-cor/10057006

[barnson]

Tracking this class of bug at #6803.