VS has updated itself AGAIN

[TurkeyMan]

Doesn't work with VS latest again :(

[rainers]

Are you running on VS Preview now, i.e. 17.13 ATM? 17.12 should work with Visual D 1.4.0-rc3.

I recently updated to VS 17.13 myself and updated the dbuild.dll dependency. I'm preparing rc4 which should support that, too.

[TurkeyMan]

My colleague reported again; he had to update his VS install to achieve compatibility with some other SDK he needed.
It seems MS are updating VS every couple of months these days. Seems like a terrible decision; really bad for plugin authors!

[rainers]

Sorry for the delay, I ran into some difficulties building on a new computer and then got distracted. VS 17.13 support is now released in https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v1.4.0-rc4

[TurkeyMan]

I just installed VS Community now on a new laptop. Still failing out-of-the-box with all latest stuff.

• I used 1.4.0-rc4
  

1>C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\msbuild\dcompile.targets(193,5): error MSB4062: The "dbuild.CompileD" task could not be loaded from the assembly C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\msbuild\dbuild.Current.dll. Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\msbuild\dbuild.Current.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the <UsingTask> declaration is correct, that the assembly and all its dependencies are available, and that the task contains a public class that implements Microsoft.Build.Framework.ITask.

Seems the installer installed 17.12.3; not 17.12.13? I didn't change any options, that was default install; although I think I did see an option to install 17.12.13 unchecked by default (it described it as 'beta', and I thought that VD wouldn't work with a beta release for sure, so I did not check it :P)

This seems to be an ongoing battle... I don't understand what MS think they're doing to have created this situation, but I wonder if there is some way that VD could self-resolve, by auto-updating or something in the case of detected version mismatch?

[TurkeyMan]

I upgraded to the 17.13 preview, since it looks like you implemented support for 17.13, but when I try and build, instead of getting a build error, it just does nothing:

Rebuild started at 11:13 AM...
1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: sampledb, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
========== Rebuild completed at 11:13 AM and took 02.614 seconds ==========

That's a rebuild-all; it didn't build anything from the project, but it says it's complete.

I checked the version:

It says 17.13, but there's no VD plugins shown in the list...
I re-ran the VD 1.4.0-rc4 installer, but it didn't seem to do anything.

[rainers]

Seems the installer installed 17.12.3; not 17.12.13? I

17.12.3 is the latest release of the 17.12 series, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes

I skipped that version on my system, so I botched the check in "c:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\msbuild\dcompile_defaults.props" in line 50, it should read ``< 13` instead of 12.

This seems to be an ongoing battle...

I think MS is only partly to blame. We are hooking into the VC build tasks in a probably unexpected way. There is a DLL that we could link against, though (Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.Common.Base.dll), but msbuild cannot load it at the same time as the versioned one. The latter one is necessary to build C/C++ files.

[rainers]

It says 17.13, but there's no VD plugins shown in the list... I re-ran the VD 1.4.0-rc4 installer, but it didn't seem to do anything.

Did you install the preview side-by-side with the community version? The installer doesn't detect multiple installations of VS 2022, see also #271. I suspect without the importbefore/importafter files the unknown xml-entries in the project file just get ignored by msbuild.

[TurkeyMan]

Ah, I did indeed install it beside the community version... It didn't offer to replace it or uninstall, installing it beside the existing version was the default option.

[rainers]

I have fixed the VS 17.12 version check and added support to install for 2 parallel installations of VS 2022 (will add a few more later). Please try https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v1.4.0-rc5