Fixing a bug preventing running generated msi on downlevel OS, see.

You can download a version of this extension compatible with Visual Studio 2015 here. NOTE: This extension is designed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019.

Once you have finished installing the extension and restarted Visual Studio, you will be able to open existing Visual Studio Installer projects, or create new ones.įor modern deployment targeting Windows 10 you can also use the Windows Packaging Project to create APPX and/or MSIX packages. To use this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog, select the online node, and search for 'Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension,' or you can download directly from this page. This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. If you know what the right tags are that might be an adequate solution.NOTE: The version that works with Visual Studio 2022 can be found here. I guessed setup install -productid -channelid VisualStudio.15.ReleaseĪ product matching the following parameters cannot be found: It appears that it may be possible to install vs2019 by using the right tags. I had a hunch that I might find something out by using 'setup -h' in command prompt. I uninstalled every version of visual studio I had in case the installer was assuming I already have VS2019. I don't have any antivirus or firewall running. It opens the installer but instead of allowing me to select tools to install it just has 2 empty tabs labeled 'installed' and 'available' and a side bar that shows developer news. I located the visual studio installer 'setup.exe' (under C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Installer) and ran it. It ran successfully but instead of opening the visual studio installer when it completed it just closed. I downloaded the visual studio 2019 community installer and ran it.

Visual studio 2019 community installer