Naming the folder exactly "VST3 SDK" (Without underscore) worked for me.

The plugin should create all app data files automatically if they don't exist and ask for a sample folder the first time. You should be able to point it to the directory and from then on you're ready to go.

This seems to be the issue, because the compiled plugin does not ask for anything during first launch and the LinkWindows file is not created.

How can I choose a respective sample folder? All the .wav samples are already copied in the project Sample folder. Is it obligatory to use an installer for compiled plugins?

Greetings,
On the very first launch the plugin is informing that the Sample directory is not existing with the only option to ignore it.
I looked up the respective project folder in the APPDATA but there was no LinkWindows file present (According to the tutorial it is supposed to be here).
Supposedly, the AudioResources.dat should be edited instead, but I struggle to find the correct way to edit it.
I tried replacing the only AudioFiles/NULNULNUL line with something like AudioFiles/C:\Users\Ksn\Desktop\Testplugin\Samples
or AudioFiles/C:\Users\Ksn\Desktop\TestPlugin\Samples\MusicBox.ch1 but it didn't work out.
Thanks!

Yes, the samples are copied in the project Samples data folder

Thanks for the reply, the crash itself is fixed, yet the problem still exists in the other way. (Pic related)
because the project_info.xml file exists and seems to be fine, nevertheless I'm copypasting it's contents here https://pastebin.com/sMsnyPJj
I also tried launching it as admin, but it didn't help.

Not sure what is going wrong, but now I'm experiencing the same crashes even on the downloaded version of HISE.

Naming the folder exactly "VST3 SDK" (Without underscore) worked for me.

Thanks, deleting editordata.json worked like magic for downloaded version,
and the Debug version pointed out to the

Greetings, I started experiencing constant crashes when trying to export samples as monolith with the following info (The app was freshly compiled on 21.08.2017) :
Application Timestamp: 59398cc3
Fault Module Name: HISE.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 59398cc3
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000048ceeb
I also tried launching already built HISE from this website, but it instantly crashed on launch with the same exception code (c0000005)
The OS version is win7 64x.
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Thanks for the reply,
and yes, I will deeply appreciate if you could add a corresponding example instrument in the repository.