Installation of AnkhSVN Visual Studio 2019

Looks like it doesn't support VS2019 by default. https://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/ But you can try to update extension for VS2019.

  1. Rename vsix to zip
  2. Unzip
  3. Open extension.vsixmanifest, manifest.json and catalog.json and for Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor change version to [15.0,)
  4. Open extension.vsixmanifest and also replace all [15.0,16.0) by [15.0,17.0)
  5. Zip all files
  6. Rename to vsix

The latest AnkhSVN version is not compatible with Visual Studio 2019 (and the project, unfortunately, seems dead).

A possible solution is to edit manually the files stored in the vsix file (it's a zip file with a different extension).

The file to edit are:

  • extension.vsixmanifest
    Change the occurance of [15.0,16.0) to [15.0,17.0)
    Change the prerequisite in this way:
    <Prerequisite Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor" Version="[15.0,)" DisplayName="Visual Studio core editor" />

  • catalog.json
    search Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor and change the version to "[15.0,)"

  • manifest.json
    search Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor and change the version to "[15.0,)" as the catalog.json

After these changes it's possible to install the extension in VS2019 but still open a warning shown by VS related an incompatibility of the load process (AnkhSVN use a synchronous load, VS2019 want an async load).


I have made a fork of the AnkhSVN project and published a version on Visual Studio Marketplace as AnkhSVN2019.

This version targets only Visual Studio 2019.

The page on the Visual Studio Marketplace is here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PhilJollans.AnkhSVN2019

You can also find it by searching the Visual Studio Marketplace in Visual Studio.

The project is on GitHub here:
https://github.com/PhilJollans/AnkhSVN2019

As far as I can tell it is working correctly, but that is based on a small number of systems, and I only use a subset of the features.

Support for Visual Studio 2022

My fork of AnkhSVN does not support Visual Studio 2022, but there is a version in the GitHub repository from the original developers of AnkhSVN.

As of 4-December-2021, this version is not available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, but you can download the package from the releases page on GitHub.

As of 4-December-2021, the download link for the current version is
https://github.com/AmpScm/AnkhSVN/releases/download/v2.9.87/Ankh-VSIX-2022.zip,
but there may now be a newer version.