'VS2022 Extensibility: How to resolve "The type 'XXX' exists in both 'Assembly 1' and 'Assembly2' in T4 template execution

I have an extension I'm updating from VS2019 to VS2022. It's a DSL using the Modeling SDK and has code generation via T4 templates.

I have it pretty much converted but, when running the T4s, I get

Compiling transformation: The type 'SourceControl' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'
Compiling transformation: The type 'Project' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'      
Compiling transformation: The type 'Constants' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'    
Compiling transformation: The type 'ProjectItem' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'  
Compiling transformation: The type 'ProjectItems' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' 
Compiling transformation: The type 'DTE' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'          
Compiling transformation: The type 'Solution' exists in both 'EnvDTE, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop, Version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'     

and can't figure out how to resolve this.

I'm not including those assemblies in my main .tt file, nor are they referenced in my Dsl or DslPackage projects, but I understand from some other errors I had to resolve that EnvDTE8.0 and Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop are implicitly available as part of the ambient VS2022 environment. Since they're not part of my projects, I can't use the Visual Studio Alias mechanism to disambiguate.

I've read the other questions on SO regarding similar issues, but none of them are this problem and their solutions really don't apply.

Thanks for any help or direction anyone can give.



Solution 1:[1]

try to delete the EnvDTE assembly.

<#@ assembly name="EnvDTE"#>

but the following code is still valid:

<# EnvDTE.DTE dte = (EnvDTE.DTE) ((IServiceProvider)this.Host).GetService(typeof(EnvDTE.DTE));#>

and I use VS2022.

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