[AC-6518] Changed the selected visual studio version if multiple version installed on machine

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	n/a
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	Appcelerator Studio 4.3.0
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Studio
Labels	n/a
Reporter	shishir.roy
Assignee	Abir Mukherjee
Created	2020-04-02T17:07:32.000+0000
Updated	2020-04-03T13:30:56.000+0000

Description

I have installed visual studio 2017 and 2019 on same machine. And I wanted to run windows app from the Appcelerator studio. But it is failed to build.

[ERROR] :  Failed to run command "build"
[ERROR] :  TypeError: Cannot read property 'cyan' of undefined

As per my understanding, it will only build with vs 2017. But by default, it is selecting vs 2019 which assuming the problem. I have checked the environment setting:

Microsoft (R) Visual Studio
  Visual Studio Enterprise 2017
    Path                      = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise
    CLR Version               = null
    MSBuild Version           = v15.9.28307.1064
    Windows Phone SDKs        = not installed
  Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 (selected)
    Path                      = D:\vs2019
    CLR Version               = null
    MSBuild Version           = v16.5.29926.136
    Windows Phone SDKs        = not installed

Please tell how to changed to vs 2017 in Appcelerator studio for building Windows app if above is not a problem, then please suggest how to fix the build error.

Comments

Ewan Harris 2020-04-02

[~shishir.roy] Please see the Titanium CLI options document https://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/guide/Titanium_CLI_Options, you should be able to set the selected visual studio version using to appc ti config windows.visualstudio.selectedVersion "Visual Studio Enterprise 2017"
Christopher Williams 2020-04-03

Note that there is a -V command line flag/option to specify the Visual Studio Target if you want to select/target it on a per command basis rather than setting the config value to effectively change the default.

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