VS2019 Community plugin installation

[BigBrett]

I am having trouble getting the VSIX installation for VS2019 Community Edition to recognise that VS2019 is actually installed.

The VSIX log file is as follows:

11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Microsoft VSIX Installer
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - -------------------------------------------
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Initializing Install...
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Extension Details...
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Identifier : VaultWitVsip.bf3a1c52-1b02-421b-b8db-2700bc98e85f
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Name : SourceGear Vault Professional Extension
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Author : SourceGear, LLC
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Version : 10.0.3.0
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Description : This extension includes the Vault Professional Visual Studio Enhanced Client for Source Code Control and Work Item Integration within Visual Studio
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - Locale : en-US
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - MoreInfoURL : http://www.sourcegear.com/vault
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - InstalledByMSI : False
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM - SupportedFrameworkVersionRange : [4.5,)
11/04/2019 6:42:17 AM -
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - SignatureState : ValidSignature
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - SignedBy : SourceGear, LLC
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Certificate Info :
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - -------------------------------------------------------
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Subject] : CN="SourceGear, LLC", OU=Vault, O="SourceGear, LLC", L=Champaign, S=Illinois, C=US
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Issuer] : CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Serial Number] : 79781F5CEE3487AB12E770DDA321815D
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Not Before] : 05/10/2018 2:00:00 AM
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Not After] : 30/12/2019 1:59:59 AM
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - [Thumbprint] : E69F9139F6C2BDA78FE444DB3A68B1F137F40096
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM -
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Supported Products :
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Version : [15.0,17.0)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Pro
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Version : [15.0,17.0)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Version : [15.0,17.0)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM -
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - References :
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - -------------------------------------------------------
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Identifier : VaultSccVsip.7BE9CE03-56BF-4682-9C06-78C68B134B30
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Name : SourceGear Vault Professional Extension
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Version : [10.0,11.0)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - MoreInfoURL :
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Nested : Yes
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM -
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Signature Details...
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Extension is signed with a valid signature.
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM -
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Searching for applicable products...
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Integrated)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Global Location
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.
at VSIXInstaller.App.InitializeInstall(Boolean isRepairSupported)
at VSIXInstaller.App.InitializeInstall()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()

[jclausius]

How did you install the extension?

In any case, if you look at the log, it appears as if VS 2019 is not properly registered on your system. The log entries show that only VS 2015 is installed:

11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Searching for applicable products...
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Shell (Integrated)
11/04/2019 6:42:18 AM - Found installed product - Global Location

You can try this and see if the results are different. Go to the VS 2019 installation directory and search for VSIXInstaller.exe. Is it found? If so, using a command line with elevated administrative privileges, try running ' "<path\to>\VSIXInstaller.exe" /admin /shutdownprocesses /skuname:Community /skuversion:16.0 "<path\to>\VaultPro_VisualStudioExtension_10.0.3.30966.vsix" ' Does that resolve the issue? Note /skuname and /skuversion may NOT be needed and will vary from version to version and edition to edition of Visual Studio. May want to try it without those arguments first.

If you run just VSIXInstaller.exe, you can see the different arguments that may help the installer recognize VS2019 and go through installing the extension. Other than that, you may want to research why Visual Studio 2019 may not be correctly registered with the Visual Studio installer on your system.

[BigBrett]

Don't know what happened initially but, after a reinstall of VS2019 Community, the plugin could be installed.

[jclausius]

Glad to see a repair / re-install resolved the issue for you.