Wix Toolset Visual Studio 2019 Extension install fails: Incredibuild

[afriesen3]

Attempting to install VS 2019 extension. Fails while attempting to install Incredibuild. Log attached below.

Why is this bloatware even a part of the extension installation?

After failure, VS seems to think the extension is installed, but it is disabled. Attempting to enable it gets the following message:

Dependency Alert

This extension cannot be enabled because it depends on following disabled products:
WiX Toolset v3 Schemas for Visual Studio
WiX Toolset v4 Schemas for Visual Studio

The end of the log showing the failure is:

5/28/2021 11:18:36 AM - Beginning to install extension to Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019...
5/28/2021 11:18:55 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Windows.UniversalCRT.Msu.8: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.2,6.3)'.
5/28/2021 11:18:55 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Windows.UniversalCRT.Msu.81: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.3,6.4)'.
5/28/2021 11:18:55 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Net.4.7.2.FullRedist: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1.1,10.0.16299]'.
5/28/2021 11:18:56 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.DbgHelp.Win8: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.3]'.
5/28/2021 11:18:56 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Remote.DbgHelp.Win8: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.3]'.
5/28/2021 11:18:56 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Remote.DbgHelp.Win8: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.3]'.
5/28/2021 11:18:56 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.VisualStudio.NuGet.PowershellBindingRedirect: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.2)'.
5/28/2021 11:18:56 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Windows.UniversalCRT.Msu.7: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.2)'.
5/28/2021 11:18:57 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.DiagnosticsHub.KB2882822.Win7: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1,6.2)'.
5/28/2021 11:18:58 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Ancm.IIS.Msi: Required conditions are not satisfied: IISCoreWebEngineInstalledx64 And IISW3SvcInstalledx64
5/28/2021 11:18:58 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Ancmv2.IIS.Msi: Required conditions are not satisfied: IISCoreWebEngineInstalledx64 And IISW3SvcInstalledx64
5/28/2021 11:18:58 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Net.4.8.FullRedist: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '[6.1.1,10.0.17763]'.
5/28/2021 11:18:58 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.Azure.PowerShell: Required conditions are not satisfied: Not Powershell5
5/28/2021 11:19:03 AM - Skipping non-applicable package Microsoft.VisualStudio.OfficeDeveloperTools.WindowsIdentityFoundation.Msu: The current OS Version '10.0.18363.0' is not in the supported version range '(,6.2)'.
5/28/2021 11:22:01 AM - Package 'Incredibuild,version=9.50.0.3385' failed to install. Command executed: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Incredibuild,version=9.50.0.3385\packages\Incredibuild\incredibuild_vs_950_3385.exe" /install /vs_integrated /INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\IncrediBuild", Return code: 4, Details: The system cannot open the file., Signature: PackageId=Incredibuild;PackageAction=install;ReturnCode=4
5/28/2021 11:22:01 AM - Skipping Install of 'IncredibuildMenu,version=1.5.0.13' since the package or a parent package had a vital failure.
5/28/2021 11:22:01 AM - Skipping cache of package 'IncredibuildMenu,version=1.5.0.13' since the package or a parent package had a vital failure.
5/28/2021 11:22:01 AM - Skipping cache of package 'Component.IncredibuildMenu,version=1.5.0.13' since the package or a parent package had a vital failure.
5/28/2021 11:22:01 AM - Skipping cache of package 'Component.Incredibuild,version=16.5.29721.120' since the package or a parent package had a vital failure.
5/28/2021 11:26:21 AM - Install Error : System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PackageFailureException: Package 'Incredibuild' failed to install
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.InstallOperation.Run(CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunOperation(InstallOperation installOperation, CancellationToken token, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunCoreOperation(InstallOperation coreOperation, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.b__14_0()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.Install() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.PerformSetupEngineInstall(InstallableExtensionImpl extension, Boolean installPerMachine, Boolean isPackComponent, IDictionary2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, IProgress1 progress, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp, Version targetedVsVersion, IInstalledExtension& newExtension)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallInternal(InstallableExtensionImpl extension, InstallFlags installFlags, IDictionary2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, AsyncOperation asyncOp, IProgress1 progress, Version targetedVsVersion) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.BeginInstall(IInstallableExtension installableExtension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp, Version targetedVsVersion) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallWorker(IInstallableExtension extension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp) ---> (Inner Exception #0) Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PackageFailureException: Package 'Incredibuild' failed to install while at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.InstallOperation.Run(CancellationToken token) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunOperation(InstallOperation installOperation, CancellationToken token, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunCoreOperation(InstallOperation coreOperation, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation, CancellationToken token) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.<Install>b__14_0() at System.Threading.Tasks.Task1.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()<---

[robmen]

Why is this bloatware even a part of the extension installation?

I'm not exactly sure what you are labeling as "bloatware" but if it is Incredibuild, the WiX Toolset does not have a dependency on Incredibuild. The WiX Toolset does have a dependency on the WiX Toolset Schemas for Intellisense support in Visual Studio. As the WiX Toolset is open source, you can see the installation logic here: https://github.com/wixtoolset/VisualStudioExtension/blob/develop/src/Votive2019/source.extension.vsixmanifest

This extension cannot be enabled because it depends on following disabled products:

I don't know why the schema packages would be disabled. Perhaps there was a permissions issue during install as the schema packages install XSDs and Visual Studio requires machine permission to install XSDs (that's part of the reason we broke them into separate packages, to try to minimize the machine installation as the XSDs don't usually change as much over time).

Finally, the Visual Studio Installer attempts to install every package it thinks needs to be installed or updated. That means installing one VSIX package (such as the WiX Toolset) can cause all of your pending Visual Studio updates to get installed. The net result is people blaming us for non-related Visual Studio package failures.

[afriesen3]

My apologies for blaming the wix extension installer. Other vsix extensions install and do not show an attempt to install Incredibuild, so the failure seemed to point back to this extension. I will look at other causes.

[robmen]

Most VSIXs out there are smaller tools that don't have a per-machine component (in our case, the XSDs) and thus don't trigger updates for per-machine VSIXs. So they avoid a whole class of components (like Incredibuild) from interfering with their install. Lucky them. 😃