Create VGDB project missing from menu

[Sherlock]

I installed VGDB today and I have VS2022 and VS2026 (both enterprise).

In VS2022 I can see the VGDB option the new project menu in VS2022 but not in VS2026.

I opened an existing simple project in VS2026 though and it loaded and built and runs.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[support]

Hi,

Please try completely  uninstalling VisualGDB, and then installing it back.

You can double-check the Help->About VisualGDB in both VS instances. If it is present, VisualGDB has been loaded successfully.

[Sherlock]

OK I can try that, I did have trouble installing it too.

I originally had an older version of VGDB ( bought it some years ago) and used that fine in VS2022.

A few weeks ago I was in VS2022 and saw an option to update or something and clicked it without much thought.

It said my license was not compatible with the update (fair enough, it was an old license) and I somehow aborted.

Today I decided to uninstall the old VGDB and install the latest 6.1r3 (trial) when I did that I get a series of two dialogs saying that reported “unknown major VS version: 21” and another for 22 I think.

I did a repair of VS2022 just to see if that was a factor.

I closed all VS instances and retried, I got the same two dialogs but the install did appear to work this time.

So now the only issue is the absence of the new project option in VS2026.

Should I just uninstall and reinstall as you suggest or is there anything you’d like to know/see before I do that?

 

Thanks

PS: I did some digging around the registry but saw nothing obvious and did not change anything in there.

• This reply was modified 1 hour, 7 minutes ago by Sherlock.

[Sherlock]

By the way the About VGDB appears in both VS2022 and VS2026

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