Unable to Create MSI Project in VS "New Project" Wizard

[CJKeller03]

Hello! I'm using the latest version of HeatWave (1.0.6, downloaded through the Visual Studio extension manager) on a fresh install of VS Professional 2022 (17.14.3). When I right-click on my solution and use the Add > New Project > MSI Package wizard to create an installer project, I get an error that "The SDK 'WixToolset.Sdk/6.0.0' specified could not be found."

I have ensured that https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json is both present and enabled in the NuGet package sources, so VS should be able to download it.

I've searched all over with no resolution to this issue, and even tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS completely with no success. Any idea what I might be missing? I was able to get it working without issue on a different machine running VS 17.13.6, but when I tried using the same version on my primary machine it still didn't work. Both are running Windows 11.

Let me know if there's any additional debugging details I should provide - thanks!

[maltsev-gv]

I faced the same issue then I tried to open Wix5 sources on my local machine.

Nuget.org is available.
I tied to change versions of used WixToolset.SDK (5.0.1, 5.0.2, 6.0.1) but it doesn't work for me.

All these versions are correctly downloaded from NuGet, but it doesn't solve the issue.

[maltsev-gv]

Hmm, changing
<Project Sdk="WixToolset.Sdk" Version="6.0.1" >
with
<Project Sdk="WixToolset.Sdk/5.0.2" >
allowed me to load the project util.wixproj

[FireGiantHelp]

The WixToolset.Sdk/#.#.# is the correct syntax for referencing the WiX Toolset SDK. The syntax with a separate Version attribute is used on the more verbose Sdk element syntax.

[FireGiantHelp]

@CJKeller03 if you create a project manually like this:

<Project Sdk="WixToolset.Sdk/6.0.1>
</Project>

is HeatWave able to open that for you? We're still investigating the mysterious problem with the project templates. We're unable to reproduce the issue ourselves, making it challenging.