Hi,

We have received a Custom Guidance Package developed by one of our clients and want to enable it for Visual Studio 2005 at our development center.

After installing the Custom Guidance Package(SmartClientDevelopment.msi) along withthe pre-requisiteslike GAT / GAX / CAB, we are unable to see the package inside visual studio 2005 (Tools > Guidance Package Manager > Enable / Disable Packages...).

Whenwe createour own Custom Guidance Package and install it using the setup.msi it shows up without any issues.

This issue is bugging us for the last couple of days now and we have tried our best to get rid off the same, but, without any success.

Requesting all you guys there to get me out of this issue / problem.

Regards,

Tushar

All the installations you performed went smoothly without any errors/warning at all?

Is the SmartClientDevelopment.msi the original one coming from p&p or is it a modified version?

All the installations you performed went smoothly without any errors/warning at all?

Is the SmartClientDevelopment.msi the original one coming from p&p or is it a modified version?

The only thing I can think of right now is that in the modified package they may have left the name and GUID for the original p&p package which should cause an error at installation time... but you're not getting any errors when installing the modified version of the package right? The modified package will install just fine but it will never show up in the Guidance Package Manager right?

If my assumptions are correct, let's check a few things in trying to determine what may be going wrong:

1) Take a look at your C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Recipe Framework\RecipeFramework.xml file and doublecheck that there is a <GuidancePackage> element corresponding to the modified package (its Name & Guid attribute should not be the same of the original package).

2) If 1) was true, use regedit to lookat HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages there should be a subkey named after the GUID for the modified package.

Let me know about 1) & 2) and we'll try to work from there.

thanks,
-Victor.

Hi Victor,

1. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Recipe Framework\RecipeFramework.xml - Does not include an entry for the Custom Guidance Package.

2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages- Couldn't trace an entry here as well.

Ok -- there is no chance the package will ever show without the above entries (and others) set up.

Now, it seems then like the installer is not properly installing the package... you didn't receive any errors right? Could you try doing a verbose installation, "msiexec /i /lv log.txt yourpackage.msi" and look at the log file to check if there is anything failing? If you want me to take a look at the generated log file please email it to vga AT clariusconsulting DOT net

thanks,
-Victor.

Victor,

Were you able to provide solution to above said issue? I am having same issue with Service Factory customized guidance package. The installation completes without any error but my guidance package does not show up in VS. I do have the name and GUID changed of this Service Factory Guidance Package while customizing.