Starting with Visual Studio 2017 Microsoft made a change that affects how third party Source Code Control providers register their integration components. What this means for Vault users is that
after installing the Vault client, a secondary component needs to be installed in order to use the Vault Visual Studio Enhanced Client with Visual Studio 2017. As of Vault 10, a Visual Studio 2017 client extension can be found on the Vault downloads page.
Download the client called Visual Studio 2017 Extensions.
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The downloaded file is called VaultPro_VisualStudioExtension. Double-click to install.
Note, if the *.vsix extension is not registered on your machine, you may have to install via command line. The
VSIXInstaller.exe binary, usually found in %VS150COMNTOOLS%, is used for this purpose. You can run
VSIXInstaller /? to see the arguments required to install the Vault extension.
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The installer will only install the Vault Enhanced Client, and you will see this under Tools - Options - Source Control - Plug-in Selection.
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Limitations
The features Show History and Show Differences cannot work with only the VSIX client installed. For those features, the Vault Windows GUI client needs to be installed.