CreateInstance failed in version 2.2.6 loaded into VS 2017

[cw2]

Hello,

at first, thank you all for the excellent work on this extension, I have been using it for ages :)

Unfortunately, it seems the latest version 2.2.6 has broken support for VS 2017 (Professional 15.9.36), because it fails to load with the following error "Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.0, Version=16.0.0.0", for complete detail please see attached ActivityLog.zip.

I have downgraded to version 2.2.5 that works fine.

Thank you,

CW2

[cw2]

I forgot to mention I also have installed Visual Studio Community 2019 (16.10.0) with the extension version 2.2.5 working fine. If the problem can be caused by this particular combination of installed VS versions, please let me know in case you need to test anything or provide more information (e.g. fusion log); I am familiar with VS extension development.

[pharring]

Thanks for the bug report. I'm very sorry about that.
I think I know why that happened. I switched to reference the Dev16 SDK, believing it supported all downstream products. My bad. I guess I have to revert to an older SDK.

[pharring]

I switched to using the Dev14 (VS 2015) SDK pieces and verified that it now works on VS 2017.
Thanks again for the bug report.

[cw2]

I have checked the new 2.2.7 version and it works fine in VS 2017.

Thank you for such quick fix.