Installation fails on project templates creation.

Hi,

Yes, changing documents folder temporarily worked.

The network path is nowhere near 260 characters so there must be something else going on.

Hope it is possible fix the installer to honor the setting in visual studio to where the templates should go.

Also, fix the issue with installation rollback not working.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wilfred

Hi Wilfred,

maybe you can change your MyDocuments location temporarily to fix that issue?

Best regards
Frank

Hi,

I’m not doing anything fancy like installing to a network path.

But I’m on a corporate network and it is common to redirect the users document folder to a network path.

As stated before.
I opened Tools–>Options–>Projects and solutions–>Locations and changed it to:
C:\ProgramData\VS2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
C:\ProgramData\VS2019\Templates\ItemTemplates

Why is Wisej still trying to install templates to the network path?

Thanks.

Best regard,
Wilfred

Hi Wilfred,

this appears to be a limitation of MS Installers not being able to install on network paths longer than 260 characters.

See here: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30490

You could trying to install on a mapped drive or locally.

Hope that helps.

Best regards
Frank

Only Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2019.

Hi Wilfred,

do you have more than one Visual Studio 2019, e.g. a Community and Professional | Enterprise Edition on the same machine?

If yes, you might consider changing the Paths in the other edition as well.

Best regards
Frank