Enable WiX project in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I have a VS 2012 solution with WiX Installer projects. However, when I open the solution in VS 2013 (Release) the WiX project is incompatible.

Does anyone know where

Answer 1

After running the toolkit installer for wix:

For Wix 3.8 and 3.9, with Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, I was required to delete all the cache files in:

"%appdata%..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache" (for VS 2012) and "%appdata%..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache" (for VS 2013) respectively.

After deleting these files, execute from command prompt for each version of VS:

devenv /setup

e.g. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv /setup"

and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv /setup"

Only after I deleted these files and restarted the machine did executing "devenv /setup" have the desired effect.

If these cache files are not deleted first, then you may experience a problem where your packages fail to load properly. You will know if your packages fail to load because VS will fail miserably upon startup.