The “GetDeploymentPathFromVsixManifest” task failed unexpectedly

Question

After installation of visual studio 2017 getting his error for VSIX projects ... any suggestion to resolve the issue?

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Answer 1

Hopefully someone else can get a better workaround. but for now this is what I got working:

1. Uncheck the "Deploy VSIX content to experimental" in the VSIX tab of your project properties. (this will allow you to build the project)
2. Follow this migration guide. in my case, all I had to do was adding my environment to the supported list. the rest seems more relevant if you are ready to publish.
3. Install the generated extension manually from the target output directory. if it doesn't work, delete the content of the output directory and rebuild.

This will let you resume working on the extension, but unfortunately you won't have any debugging support. and you will have to uninstall/install every time you want to test something.