VS2017 Setup Project - Where?

c# installation project
DaveEP picture DaveEP · Apr 9, 2017 · Viewed 28.1k times · Source

I'm trying to create a setup project / installer for a C# project but can't find the 'setup project' template in VS2017.

In VS2015 it was under: Other Project Types >> Setup and Deployment >> Visual Studio Installer and I used that several times without any problem.

That is not present on my VS2017. Is there something else I need to install?

I've looked through all the installed options and also tried the Online section, but searching for 'Setup' only brings up 'Mastercam NET-Hook'.

I've also looked on Stack Overflow but all the questions appear to be about problems within a Setup Project and not creating it in the first place.

Google brings up lots of questions for earlier versions (2013 etc) but nothing I could see for VS2017.

What am I missing?

Answer

Luís Chaves picture Luís Chaves · Apr 9, 2017

You must use the official Microsoft extension to do that, it's available here!

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