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Asked: 2026-06-14T01:43:19+00:00

I am moving a project from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2012 and

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I am moving a project from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2012 and am getting compiler errors about VSConstants:

Error   16  The name 'VSConstants' does not exist in the current context

I have ensured that Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell is referenced and have also tried referencing Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0 and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.10.0. I have checked that the .cs file is using the assembly as well (using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell).

Any ideas on how to get VSConstants in Visual Studio 2012? If not, is there an equivalent in Visual Studio 2012 that I could use? I’m currently using VSConstants.E_FAIL and VSConstants.E_NOINTERFACE.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Make sure you have the VS 2012 SDK installed from http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=30668

    You need to add C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VSSDK\VisualStudioIntegration\Common\Assemblies\v4.0\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0.dll as a reference to the project

    To use that assembly you will have to target the 4.5 framework.

    Alternatively, The project I just upgraded … all I needed to do was to change the framework version to 4.5 and delete the project references it couldn’t find. I had anticipated that ReSharper would point me at the new ones but it just built anyway. Note, this was after I installed the SDK.

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