After stuffing around wasting another hour I think I've uncovered the cause of shfbproj files being "not supported", but I'm not sure who is to blame.
My usual 'greg' login account is a normal user, when I need to elevate I have a dummy user called 'max' (aka Max Power from a Simpsons episode) who is an Admin. When installing Sandcastle I was asked to elevate to be max, so it looks like the VS extensions went in under max's profile. Confirmed by running VS2015 as max, then I'm asked to upgrade the help project and it works. Running vs2015 as greg shows no help project support at all. Then I uninstall, make greg an Admin and reinstall, return greg to a normal user. Now I have help project support in VS2015. So I'm not sure who to blame: Does VS not support extensions for all users? Does Sandcastle install extensions per-user incorrectly? Did my greg/max flipping convention upset something? Uh?! Anyway, by jumping through a few hoops I now have VS2015 and Sandcastle project support going again. *Greg K* On 6 August 2015 at 18:17, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, since installing the previous Visual Studio and installing 2015 I > can't open help builder projects (*.shfbproj files) in my solution, they > say "incompatible". I reinstalled the latest help software and it all > installs perfectly and ticks all the boxes to say all of the VS support is > ready. I can't find any useful help on this and I'm not sure which > component to blame. The help builder GUI runs fine by itself. So it looks > like some plugin for VS is missing, but all searches are futile so far. > > Any ideas anyone?! -- *Greg K* >
