I recall having these sorts of issues with VS back in Vista but didn't look into it further. Now I run everything as admin because I don't care :p
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > After stuffing around wasting another hour I think I've uncovered the > cause of shfbproj files being "not supported", but I'm not sure who is to > blame. > > My usual 'greg' login account is a normal user, when I need to elevate I > have a dummy user called 'max' (aka Max Power from a Simpsons episode) who > is an Admin. When installing Sandcastle I was asked to elevate to be max, > so it looks like the VS extensions went in under max's profile. Confirmed > by running VS2015 as max, then I'm asked to upgrade the help project and it > works. Running vs2015 as greg shows no help project support at all. > > Then I uninstall, make greg an Admin and reinstall, return greg to a > normal user. Now I have help project support in VS2015. > > So I'm not sure who to blame: Does VS not support extensions for all > users? Does Sandcastle install extensions per-user incorrectly? Did my > greg/max flipping convention upset something? Uh?! Anyway, by jumping > through a few hoops I now have VS2015 and Sandcastle project support going > again. > > *Greg K* > > On 6 August 2015 at 18:17, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Folks, since installing the previous Visual Studio and installing 2015 I >> can't open help builder projects (*.shfbproj files) in my solution, they >> say "incompatible". I reinstalled the latest help software and it all >> installs perfectly and ticks all the boxes to say all of the VS support is >> ready. I can't find any useful help on this and I'm not sure which >> component to blame. The help builder GUI runs fine by itself. So it looks >> like some plugin for VS is missing, but all searches are futile so far. >> >> Any ideas anyone?! -- *Greg K* >> > >
