Installing WTL on VS2008

[AghaKhan]

I am using Vista and VS2008. I have changed setup80.js and it gives the message App Wizard successfully installed! Now when I want to create a project it goes through all the dialog boxes but at the end no project is created. What I am missing.

[Jonathan Davies]

Yesterday I installed VS2008, downloaded WTL and added the WTL include directory to VS settings but had not run the .js file. So after seeing you mail I tried it only to have it say it couldn't find Visual Studio. You said you changed setup80.js; but not what you changed which would have helped. Anyway, a quick look in the registry showed that it 9.0 was needed, presumably this is what you meant. I did a search and replace in setup80.js for '8.0' and changed it to '9.0' in about four places. I saved the file as setup90.js and ran it with it completing successfuly. On starting a new VS2008 project I now get the option of a WTL project. Selecting this and the defaults on the wizard gave me a WTL project, files and all. I realise this doesn't tell you what you are doing wrong, but it does tell you what I did to get it to work.

[led mike]

Nice post. I have not yet used WTL in VS2008 so this information will be great when I do, thanks.

led mike

[AghaKhan]

I did not change anything in registry but changed js file. // Windows Template Library - WTL version 8.0 // Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. // // This file is a part of the Windows Template Library. // The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the // Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) which can be found in the file // Ms-PL.txt at the root of this distribution. // Setup program for the WTL App Wizard for VC++ 8.0 (Whidbey) main(); function main() { // Decode command line arguments var bDebug = false; var bElevated = false; var Args = WScript.Arguments; for(var i = 0; i < Args.length; i++) { if(Args(i) == "/debug") bDebug = true; else if(Args(i) == "/elevated") bElevated = true; } // See if UAC is enabled var Shell = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application"); if(!bElevated && Shell.IsRestricted("System", "EnableLUA")) { // Check that the script is being run interactively. if(!WScript.Interactive) { WScript.Echo("ERROR: Elevation required."); return; } // Now relaunch the script, using the "RunAs" verb to elevate var strParams = "\"" + WScript.ScriptFullName + "\""; if (bDebug) strParams += " /debug"; strParams += " /elevated"; Shell.ShellExecute(WScript.FullName, strParams, null, "RunAs"); return; } // Create shell object var WSShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); // Create file system object var FileSys = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); // Get the folder containing the script file var strValue = FileSys.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName); if(strValue == null || strValue == "") strValue = "."; var strSourceFolder = FileSys.BuildPath(strValue, "Files"); if(bDebug) WScript.Echo("Source: " + strSourceFolder); if(!FileSys.FolderExists(strSourceFolder)) { WScript.Echo("ERROR: Cannot find Wizard folder (should be: " + strSourceFolder + ")"); return; } try { //var strVC8Key = "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\8.0\\Setup\\VC\\ProductDir"; var strVC8Key = "HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\9.0\\Setup\\VC\\ProductDir"; strValue = WSShell.RegRead(strVC8Key); } catch(e) { try { var strVC8Key_x64 = "HKLM\\Software\\Wow6432Node\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\9.0\\Setup\\VC\\ProductDir"; strValue = WSShell.RegRead(strVC8Key_x64); } catch(e) { WScript.Echo("ERROR: Cannot find where Visual Studio 9.0 is installed."); return;

[AghaKhan]

I I just realized I also have to change from strLine += ".8.0" to strLine += ".9.0"; It works. Thanks for reply. Best regards Agha Khan (UMIST) while(!fileSrc.AtEndOfStream) { var strLine = fileSrc.ReadLine(); if(strLine.indexOf("Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine") != -1) strLine += ".8.0"; else if(strLine.indexOf("WIZARD_VERSION") != -1) strLine = "Param=\"WIZARD_VERSION = 8.0\""; else if(strLine.indexOf("ABSOLUTE_PATH") != -1) strLine = "Param=\"ABSOLUTE_PATH = " + strSourceFolder + "\""; fileDest.WriteLine(strLine); } To while(!fileSrc.AtEndOfStream) { var strLine = fileSrc.ReadLine(); if(strLine.indexOf("Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine") != -1) strLine += ".9.0"; else if(strLine.indexOf("WIZARD_VERSION") != -1) strLine = "Param=\"WIZARD_VERSION = 8.0\""; else if(strLine.indexOf("ABSOLUTE_PATH") != -1) strLine = "Param=\"ABSOLUTE_PATH = " + strSourceFolder + "\""; fileDest.WriteLine(strLine);