You must use the official Microsoft extension to do that, it's available here!
Answer from Luís Chaves on Stack OverflowYou must use the official Microsoft extension to do that, it's available here!
You need to install the "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects". Open up MSVS Tools->Extensions and Updates (Extensions and Updates popup form appears) Online->Visual Studio Marketplace->Tools->Setup & Deployment. Then select "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects" (today, August 20, 2018, the version is 0.8.8).
NOTES: These are more of the classical MS installers we all know and love used since VS6 days.
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You need to install this extension to Visual Studio 2017/2019 in order to get access to the Installer Projects.
According to the page:
This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. 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.
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.
Other answers posted here for this question did not work for me using the latest Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise edition (as of 2018-09-18).
Instead, I used this method:
- Close all but one instance of Visual Studio.
- In the running instance, access the menu Tools->Extensions and Updates.
- In that dialog, choose Online->Visual Studio Marketplace->Tools->Setup & Deployment.
- From the list that appears, select Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects.
Once installed, close and restart Visual Studio. Go to File->New Project and search for the word Installer. You'll know you have the correct templates installed if you see a list that looks something like this:
Full explained and working solution:
1) open vs2017 and select "Tools" -> "Extensions and Updates"
2) Under Extensions and Updates select "Online" on the left of the window and on the right type in search box "Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension" hit enter and it is the first download in result (attached image) select this result "Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects" and click on "Download"
3) You will have to restart your VS2017 for the installation to happen so click on "close" button then restart you VS2017 then you should have it!
4) To use it you right click on your "Solution abc" then "Add New Project" under "Other Project Types" select "Visual Studio Installer" as I did in this attachment below.
I finally found it. I had to look in the RC forum postings.
Visual Studio Marketplace: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects
I'm stuck in a dilemma wherein there is an existing project I want to work on, which is dependent on an older VS framework. More specifically, it is dependent on the .NET 4.5 framework, and I am not able to use that framework with VS 2019, so is there any way i can install VS 2017?