Cant find Visual Studio Installer Projects on Visual Studio 2013

8
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After finishing my C# application I had to make an installer. After seeing that the default installer projects are gone, i searched for a replacement.

I found the Visual Studio Installer Projects. I downloaded the file from here: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d.

When i restarted Visual Studio, opened my project, clicked "add new project" and here is what I got: enter image description here

Problem is that I cant find the setup project. I have tried repairing the install. I restarted Visual Studio several times.

My Question:

How can I find the installer project and why it's not working for me.

If I cant make it work, are there any alternatives ? (except InstallShield)

Additional info:

Visual Studio 2013 Community with update 4

Windows 8.1 64-bit

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Did you try completely removing at and reinstalling instead of just repairing? - m.lanser
I did both. Uninstalled then installed back. Still nothing. - lyubolp
Visual Studio 2013 does not support installer project any more you mus use installed or Wix. try searching Nuget or Visual Studio addons - Tomer Klein
I am trying to install the Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects extension. But the problem is that the extension installs, but no project is shown. - lyubolp
an alternative, which doesn't answer your question but might solve your problem, is to use WiX (also free, more flexible, but also more complex.) - Michael Edenfield

3 Answers

12
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You could try Tools > Extensions and Updates and search for it:

enter image description here

1
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Visual Studio setup projects no longer ship with Visual Studio

However, you can download them here.

Or use a third party library like WiX.

0
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I had the same problem and it turns out that visual studio removed the support for installer projects in 2010. but still you can download and install it in your version

VS2013

VS2015

VS2017