Hello,

can you please tell me your installation path of Visual Studio 2017?

On my Machine the installation works fine for VS 2015 and 2017 Professional. I have also installed VS 2019 but it is not supported by the plug-in yet and therefore ignored from the installation.

The default Path is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\

I have the same problem on installing it, but with visual studio 2017 enterprise. When i try to run the installation file "PLCnext Technology Development Tools for Visual Studio.msi" i get this error:

Ok, the path information did not help to locate the issue.

Could you please tell me the value of the "ShellFolder" registry entry for Visual Studio 2015
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\

and for Visual Studio 2017 the value of the "15.0" Key found in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7

- Marcel

Here are the values from my registry:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ShellFolder --> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7\15.0 --> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\

-Stefan

Ok, nothing unexpected again. Now there is one more option to get the information we need.
We force the MSI installer to log everything he is doing into a logfile. For this you have to set the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer]
"logging"="voicewarmup"

After installing the addin with the error appearing you will find an MSI###.LOG in your %temp% folder.

You can try to analyze it yourself or send it to me via email to mluhmann (at) phoenixcontact.com.

- Marcel

Thanks a lot Marcel. Now i could install it. I have checked the log file and saw that the installation process tried to concat the paths of my Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2017 installations.

Property(N): VS_INSTALLATIONPATH_ENTERPRISE = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\EnterpriseC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise

My quick fix solution for this error was to rename the path from visual studio 2019 installation to a temporary other path. Then the installation was successfull. After installation i renamed the visual studio 2019 back to its origin name.

-Stefan