We have an isolated shell – based application, which includes also an MEF project. The current version is built with VS2010. We are trying to upgrade it to work with VS2015 shell. In the build environment (Where the complete VS2015 is installed) it works OK, but in deployment (where only the isolated shell -vs_isoshell.exe- package is installed) we experience crashes.
We tried to figure out what the problem is. It seems that in the build environment (VS2015 update 2), the versions of some dlls are different than those installed by the vs_isoshell.exe, and as result in runtime they are not loaded. The dlls for which we saw this version difference are Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition.dll, Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentModelHost.Implementation.dll, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Composition.Configuration.dll. (There may be other dlls with a similar issue, we did not look for more once we came across the problem in those three).
Is there a way to either upgrade the vs_isoshell.exe, or to make VS2015 link the projects with a different version?
Thanks
Yoel