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

I got the same build error while trying to upgrade a VSIX package from VS 2015 to VS 2017. I was able to reproduce the same issue by creating a new empty VSIX project template and adding a new class via the Visual Studio Package template.

The VSIX project does not have any references by default, however, Visual Studio 2017 will automatically add references to all required Nuget packages when adding the Package class.

I was able to resolve the issue without unchecking the "Deploy VSIX content to experimental instance for debugging" option by downgrading the Nuget package for Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools from version 15.1.192 to version 15.0.26201.

I am using Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise version 15.3.0.