Running WiseJ 2.2 in Visual Studio 2022

I followed instructions outlined in an earlier question to get WiseJ 2.2 running with Visual Studio 2022. Everything worked except for Project Templates (oddly enough Item Templates show up fine). I extracted the specified file and copied the \Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic\Wisej 2 folder to C:\Users\{MYUSERNAME}\Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic.

However, when I bring up Visual Studio “Create a new project” dialog, nothing with Wisej shows up in the list – image.

I did the same with C# templates and those don’t show up either. However, everything with Item Templates shows up fine – when I want to add something to an existing WiseJ 2.2.x project.

What am I missing?

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Matthew Ferry asked Jul 13, 2022 - 10:08 pm
last edited Jul 13, 2022 - 10:08 pm

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Actually, based on further inspection of the templates, I think you will need 2 separate sets of them. One for WiseJ 2.2 and another for 2.5.

If you look inside the VS2022 WiseJ2 Web Application template, specifically, Application.csproj file, you’ll see /ItemGroup/PackageReference which points to WiseJ 2.5: <PackageReference Include=”Wisej-2″ Version=”2.5.*” />.

Same goes for VS2019 WiseJ templates (from troubleshooting page) – they also point to WiseJ 2.5.

I think you just need to take the templates that shipped with WiseJ 2.2 and got installed into /Documents/Visual Studio 2019/Templates and package it into a zip.

Matthew Ferry answered Jul 20, 2022 - 12:46 am

- Levie (ITG)
- Jul 20, 2022 - 1:56 pm
Hi Matthew, thanks for the update. We’ll get these fixed! Regards, Levie

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Gentlemen,

Any comments on my post from July 16?

Matthew Ferry answered Jul 19, 2022 - 4:12 pm

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@Levie, @Frank. I think I’ve gotten closer to resolving the problem.

I opened \Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\Wisej 2\WebApplication\Application.vstemplate and commented out the WizardExtension block and this template just magically worked.

<!–
<WizardExtension>
<Assembly>
Wisej.Framework.Design.2022, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=17bef35e11b84171
</Assembly>
<FullClassName>Wisej.Design.Wizards.StartupProjectWizard</FullClassName>
</WizardExtension>
–>

Here is the problem. I do not have an assembly on my system called Wisej.Framework.Design.2022.dll. The closest I have is Wisej.Framework.Design.dll and via the Decompiler it does NOT have a class there called Wisej.Design.Wizards.StartupProjectWizard.

I have WiseJ 2.2.60 installed on my box. I think, maybe the templates are making assumptions about various DLLs being present on the system that aren’t really there.

Matthew Ferry answered Jul 16, 2022 - 6:07 am
last edited Jul 16, 2022 - 7:14 am

- Levie (ITG)
- Jul 19, 2022 - 4:57 pm
Hi Matthew, sorry didn’t see this. You can use your TP repo to get quicker support. It looks like there is an error in the VB WebApplication template. It should not have the Wizard. The Wizard is only for v2.5+. Installing 2.5 automatically registers Wisej.Framework.Design.2019 and Wisej.Framework.Design.2022. We’ll remove this wizard and re-upload them. Thanks for letting us know!
- Matthew Ferry
- Jul 19, 2022 - 5:18 pm
@Levie, the problem is present in all templates, not just VB WebApplication. When you do fix it and re-upload them, where exactly will the link be?

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Frank, I did run updateConfiguration command in an elevated Visual Studio prompt.

I ran procmon to see what is going on when you click Create. Doesn’t seem like there is a NOT FOUND error anywhere. So not sure whats going on.

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Matthew Ferry answered Jul 14, 2022 - 2:22 am

- Levie (ITG)
- Jul 14, 2022 - 2:46 pm
Hi Matthew, I just tried the steps you provided above and it worked for me without any issues for VS 2019 and VS 2022. Make sure all instances of VS are closed before you copy the templates over. Also make sure you “unblock” the templates zip file.
- Levie (ITG)
- Jul 14, 2022 - 2:53 pm
Additionally, you can always use the Wisej 3 (.NET Framework) template and replace the Wisej-3 NuGet package with a reference to Wisej 2.2. You’ll probably need to restart VS after that and add the Wisej 2.2 tools to the Toolbox by right-clicking it, selecting “Choose Items…”, and referencing the Wisej 2.2 dll. HTH, Levie
- Matthew Ferry
- Jul 14, 2022 - 4:42 pm
@Levie. I deleted everything and started from scratch and couldn’t make it work (I did unblock the file btw). But I still get the error that file couldn’t be found. I do have a workaround – just create a project in vs2019, then open it in vs2022. Hack but it works.
- Levie (ITG)
- Jul 15, 2022 - 2:14 pm
It looks like other people have had similar issues, check out these threads: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28299341/how-to-fix-the-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified-exception-from-hresu, https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/10391ea8-bf26-4749-936b-6d7a3f477f82/the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified-exception-from-hresult-0x80070002?forum=visualstudiogeneral, HTH, Levie
- Matthew Ferry
- Jul 15, 2022 - 8:27 pm
That’s for VS2013 and VS2015. And in these cases, the issue was present with the built-in templates that come with Visual Studio. Those work fine for me. The only thing not working are the WiseJ templates that I dropped into the /Documents folder. I’ll try putting them alongside the standard templates and see what happens.

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Hi Matthew,

not sure about that, but did you run the updateConfiguration command in an elevated Visual Studio prompt (i.e. as Administrator)?
Will probably have to dig deeper tomorrow.

Best regards
Frank

Frank (ITG) answered Jul 14, 2022 - 1:30 am

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Frank, I did get further. I cleared the cache. Ran the devenv /updateConfiguration command and I could now see the wisej templates in Visual Studio 2022.

However, when I pick any of the WiseJ templates and attempt to create a project, I get. The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002).
Any thoughts?