Maya 2015 Plugin Wizard and Visual Studio 2013?

[jazioblaq]

Hello, I am running Maya 2015 on Windows 8.1

I'd like to start learning to program Maya plugins using Visual Studio (which I'm running VS 2013). I followed these instructions for installing the Maya Plugin Wizard:

Follow these steps to install the wizard

1. The wizard can be found in devkit\pluginwizard\MayaPluginWizard2.0.zip under Maya's install folder. Unzip this file into a local folder.
2. Copy the following files to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcprojects folder:

   MayaPluginWizard.vsdir

   MayaPluginWizard.vsz

   MayaPluginWizard.ico

3. Notice that the unzipped file contains a top-level folder named MayaPluginWizard and within that a sub-folder which is also named MayaPluginWizard. Copy the top-level MayaPluginWizard folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\VCWizards

Note* instead of the  C:....\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\...,  I placed in C:....\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\....

At point of New -> Project I see the MayaPluginWizard icon. When I click to proceed to create the new project, I get "...project creation failed"

I searched several hours for a solution and I am not sure what it is. I am wondering if Maya Plugin Wizard does not work with my version of Visual Studio, or what I could be doing wrong. Thank you. Im a newbee to programming and would really like to learn!!

[borbs727]

I'm getting the same error with the same setup.  

[borbs727]

Found the answer!

Go into the MayaPluginWizard.vsz file (I just used Notepad++) and change version number in this line...

Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine.11.0

... to what ever version of Visual Studio you're using, I'm using 12.0.

Wizard=VsWizard.VsWizardEngine.12.0

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

I am running Maya 2016 and VS 2013. I did what you recommended which helped me get past the project creation part but I get a bunch of Script errors when the Plugin Wizard UI launches. Any ideas about this?