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Why is Visual Studio 2012 unable to create esriaddin?
Visual Studio 2012 generates the following warning message: “Unable to create .esriAddin; missing ESRI ArcGIS Add-in SDK component (s).” The exact same warning message is generated when migrating an ArcObjects 10.3.x add-in in Visual Studio 2013 to an ArcObjects 10.4.x add-in in Visual Studio 2015.
Why is ArcObjects not generated when migrating from Visual Studio?
On migrating an ArcObjects 10.1 add-in in Visual Studio 2010, to an ArcObjects 10.2.x add-in in Visual Studio 2012, the *.esriAddinx file is not be generated when building the project. This can be confirmed by checking the project’s bin folder.
How to migrate Esri to Visual Studio 2012?
For the first case of migrating to Visual Studio 2012, edit the XML tags in the project file containing the path ESRI.ArcGIS.AddIns.targets as follows: Open the project file in Visual Studio. Right-click the project folder, and click Unload Project. Open the project file.
Why is MSBuild different from Visual Studio 2012?
The causes are related, but are exact opposites of each other. For the first case, this issue occurs because the path name for the .targets file of the installed Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) in the software development kit (SDK) for Visual Studio 2012 is structured differently than in Visual Studio 2010.
How to migrate an ArcObjects add-in to Visual Studio?
Search on Esri Community Submit to ArcGIS Ideas On migrating an ArcObjects 10.1 add-in in Visual Studio 2010, to an ArcObjects 10.2.x add-in in Visual Studio 2012, the *.esriAddinx file is not be generated when building the project. This can be confirmed by checking the project’s bin folder.
Why is ArcObjects not creating a.esriaddin file?
After looking at the ArcObjects (VB.NET) system requirements I noticed that the only Express version listed was 2010 so I assumed 2012 was the culprit and had our IT department roll me back to 2010. Unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem and I have been searching for a solution with no success.