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How to install SideWaffle to VS2015 Community

I downloaded the extension from here and when I doubleclicked on the vsix package nothnig happened.

I checked out the extension.manifest file in the package, and these are the supported version there:

<Installation>
  <InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" Version="11.0" />
  <InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" Version="12.0" />
  <InstallationTarget Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro" Version="14.0" />
</Installation>

When VS Community got out, you had to do this to get EF Power Tools to work, but SideWaffle uses the 2.0 manifest version and that doesn't work.

I tries adding Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community but that didn't work either. Any ideas on how to make this work?

Solution

  • No idea why it didn't install when I ran it, but I did find a workaround:

    Open Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 and run VSIXInstaller {path to vsix file}

    That did the trick.