Visual Studio 2017 setup project missing

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Anyone know where the elusive setup project template went to for Visual Studio 2017?
Trying to update VS2015 setup projects, but their setup projects are not supported and MS has no information I can find (I followed every link in their forums from the IDE for the last 5 hours, but they take me to old pages!). InstallShield is nowhere to be found & ClickOnce is still not an option.

Doomsday answered 16/3, 2017 at 15:0 Comment(1)

Missing installer project templates since Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.9.6 , I've reported to VS team but seems like they don't even want to accept their mistake. developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/442945/… – Hortensehortensia 5/3, 2019 at 11:42

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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.

Foamy answered 2/10, 2017 at 18:4 Comment(3)

after doing all these, VS was still unable to load already existing setup project in the solution - right-clicking on the project and reloading worked at last, thanks. – Bullyboy 28/8, 2019 at 12:10

Pretty useful. I searched similarly for VS 2015 and got it for 2015. After clicking Download I got a VSI.exe. Thanks, that helped very much. – Howlend 12/2, 2021 at 19:39

Thank you so much it help me alot – Strontian 25/1, 2022 at 13:23

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I finally found it. I had to look in the RC forum postings.

Visual Studio Marketplace: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects

Doomsday answered 16/3, 2017 at 15:8 Comment(0)

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InstallShield support for Visual Studio 2017 is available from Flexera since April-May of 2018.

You can find it on Visual MarketPlace :https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Flexera-InstallShield-Lite.InstallShield2018Lite

you can find support via their community forum: https://community.flexerasoftware.com/forumdisplay.php?348-InstallShield-2018-Lite

You can give a try :-)

Batt answered 12/10, 2018 at 12:15 Comment(2)

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Yes ashok,you are correct.There is no Limited edition support for VS2017.InstallShield 2018 Lite is a paid edition. – Batt 2/11, 2018 at 13:54

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Installing Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects should help you build installers. Its what am using to generate .exe for my applications developed in visual studio 2017

Erythema answered 15/11, 2018 at 6:26 Comment(0)

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Limited Edition InstallShield is not available for VS2017. I think people has purchase Express Edition 2016 to create basic setup like LE.

Overfeed answered 27/7, 2017 at 11:27 Comment(0)

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There are several 3rd party extensions available for creating Setup projects (like other installation systems: NSIS and Inno Setup etc.).

Search the Visual Studio Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=unSignedsro.VisualInstaller

Harebell answered 31/10, 2017 at 5:40 Comment(0)

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