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Cannot build WinUI3 Preview3 desktop package project in fresh installed VS

See original GitHub issue

Originally posted at https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/3620#issuecomment-729466735 by @VagueGit .

This issue involves machine-wide shared component. You may need to reproduce it in a new VM.

I have two dev machines. One can build the preview 3 template project, one can’t. The error is Can't find SDK reference Microsoft.VCLibs and Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.

The working machine has VS installation upgraded since 16.0. It’s using electron-based VSInstaller UI. The not working machine has VS fresh installed for 16.8 and 16.9P1. It’s using WPF-based VSInstaller UI.

The newly installed machine misses unversioned Microsoft.VCLibs and Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop here.

After trying to modify the installation, I find that C++ UWP tools workload will bring Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop. But nothing I tried brings Microsoft.VCLibs.

This may be a VS installer issue.

Update: Repairing the VS 16.9 instance fixes this for me.

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Created 3 years ago
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placassecommented, Nov 19, 2020

Here is the two folders I took from my PC https://github.com/placasse/MicrosoftSDKs

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placassecommented, Nov 18, 2020

Thanks aoshiwik. This is effectively part of the documentation for WinUI 3. Unfortunately, it was already selected in my installation

There is a manual workaround, I found C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Kits\10\ExtensionSDKs\Microsoft.VCLibs and C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Kits\10\ExtensionSDKs\Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop on another computer not infected by Visual Studio 16.9 Preview. I copied those files on my disk to fix the issue.

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