Unresolved reference to symbol 'Property:VS2019DEVENV' in section 'Product:*'

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I am getting this error "Unresolved reference to symbol 'Property:VS2019DEVENV' in section 'Product:*'" In my Wix setup project I tried the following solutions

Updated Wix toolset version into the latest 3.14
Added reference of WixVSExtension.dll into the setup project

I changed VS2019DEVENV to VS2017DEVENV and build is succeeded for vs2017. Please find the code below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
# This comment is generated by WixEdit, the specific commandline
# arguments for the WiX Toolset are stored here.

candleArgs: 
lightArgs: "<projectname>.wixobj" -out "<projectname>.msi" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.14\bin\WixVSExtension.dll"
-->
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
 <?define PRODUCT_VERSION="14.0.0.1" ?>
 <?define MANUFACTURER="sample"?>
 <?define PRODUCT_NAME="test"?>
<?define UPGRADE_CODE="{8F258A2B-2203-43C2-A63C-B829E552F327}"?>
 <Product Id="*" Name="$(var.PRODUCT_NAME) v$(var.PRODUCT_VERSION)" Language="1033" Version="$(var.PRODUCT_VERSION)" Manufacturer="$(var.MANUFACTURER)" UpgradeCode="$(var.UPGRADE_CODE)">
<Package Compressed="yes" />
<PropertyRef Id="VS2019DEVENV" />

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Abinash Abinash · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-03T07:28:48

The version of wix binaries is my problem and I updated those with v3.14

and updated the path in build settings also

".wixobj" -out ".msi" -ext "C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.14\bin\WixVSExtension.dll"

Unresolved reference to symbol 'Property:VS2019DEVENV' in section 'Product:*'

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