I've done a successful offline installation of visual studio 2019 on my offline computer which can't be connected to the internet. On my laptop I installed some nice theme extensions for visual studio and i want to copy them to my offline computer. I tried copying C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\Extensions from my laptop to my offline copmuter but that doesn't seem to do anything and also is 1.3GB, which is way more space than just a few themes.
So how can I copy those extensions to my offline computer (if I even can)?
I suggest you download the offline package from visual studio marketplace, then re-install it on offline computer.
If we copy installation files, some unexpected problems may make visual studio crashed.
We can try to install the extension on a machine with network connection and check the required certificate (take GitHub Extension for example), export the required certificate and open "manager user certificates" on the offline computer to export it, after that and retry this extension installation.
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I rent absolutely free
Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 20H2
Installed on 2/7/2023
OS build 19042.1706
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0
With Excel installed and Activated by hosting provider
Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021
Version 2108 (build 14332.20447 Click-to-Run)
Than I try to install to this new machine VS 2022 community from official site
Unfortunately VSTO tools is impossible to install, I see a lot of times the same error
VSTO installation Error
What I need to do? I need VSTO.
I receive advice to download firstly and install after full download. In this case I have this error.
Something going wrong
What going wrong I don't understand. This VM placed to datacenter in Germany with good connection and preinstalled and activated legal copy Windows 10 and Excel.
Most probably you are dealing with a connection problem. You may try to repair your VS installation at a later point of time.
You may consider downloading a local installation package, select the Download all, then install option in the dropdown at the bottom of the Workloads tab of the Visual Studio Installer. The purpose of this feature is to frontload the downloading of the Visual Studio packages onto the same computer that you plan on eventually installing Visual Studio on. By downloading the packages locally first, you can then safely disconnect from the internet before you install Visual Studio.
Also you can download the installer locally by using a command line. And only then you can launch the installer for the Visual Studio, so you will not face with such problems. Read more about that in the Create an offline installation package of Visual Studio for local installation article.
During update Visual Studio 2019 to latest version (16.9), setup failed. Stupidly I closed installer window without read the error.
When I retryed the update, the Installer crashes few seconds after start.
I have uninstalled wholly Visual Studio, but Installer still crash.
I think something is left dirty after first update fail, I tried to search in log files recoverd by collect.exe tools, but I can't found usefull information in that bilions of messages.
Reinstalling Windows must be the last choice, there is a way to take crash error for undertand the problem and search for a solution?
EDIT
Also InstallCleanup.exe don't solve the problem
Visual Studio Installer version 2.9.3349 has problems with culture "it-IT". If that's your case (as it is mine), there is a workaround here:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Visual-Studio-Installer-crashes-after-up/1356122
The workaround is to force a working locale: ./vs_installer.exe --locale en-US
If you think your install and/or installer is corrupted, run the installation cleaner tool available at the URL below and then re-download the latest installer, from which you can get 16.9.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/remove-visual-studio?view=vs-2019
Additionally there is a step you can try in Troubleshooting Installation Issues, specifically Step 4 (The advice above the break is actually Step 6 in this process)
Step 4 - Delete the Visual Studio Installer directory to fix upgrade problems
The Visual Studio Installer bootstrapper is a minimal light-weight executable that installs the rest of the Visual Studio Installer. Deleting Visual Studio Installer files and then rerunning the bootstrapper might solve some update failures.
Note
Performing the following actions reinstalls the Visual Studio Installer files and resets the installation metadata.
Close the Visual Studio Installer.
Delete the Visual Studio Installer directory. Typically, the directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer.
Run the Visual Studio Installer bootstrapper. You might find the bootstrapper in your Downloads folder with a file name that follows a vs_[Visual Studio edition]__*.exe pattern. If you don't find that application, you can download the bootstrapper by going to the Visual Studio downloads page and clicking Download for your edition of Visual Studio. Then, run the executable to reset your installation metadata.
Try to install or update Visual Studio again. If the Installer continues to fail, go to the next step.
You have to download the installer again for the offline installation eg.vs_enterprise.exe then run vs_enterprise.exe --layout "folder where you have the offline installation". The new installer needs to download a different new configuration file vs_installer.version.json
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2019
I downloaded Visual Studio installer from Microsoft site and I have use the downloadball, then install feature to installed the ASP.NET features.
My question is that, where did the setup files stores to? I just want to know if possible I format my PC in order to install it without re downloading the files again.
Thanks.
It depends what you choose during the installation.
Usually, the packages are put in drive_letter:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages.
That is true, only if you check during the installation 'Keep download cache', see the image below.
See more on Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio
and Select the installation locations in Visual Studio
I'm building my own extension for VS2010 and it has to be deployed outside of Visual Studio Gallery. My NSIS installer does a very good job in installing other parts of software, however I can't figure out how to install .vsix extension.
I tried doing that via VsixInstaller.exe which is a part of Visual Studio, however it does not allow to silently install an extension for any VIsual Studio found on the machine and get a proper error code into the installer.
"VsixInstaller.exe /quiet extension.vsix" returns 0 error code no matter what happens and requires /skuName and /skuVersion which is not trivial to detect automatically.
Can I somehow do that manually? ReSharper for example keeps all the extension binaries in it's "Program Files" folder and somehow makes them available for VIsual Studio.
Have you tried using copy aka:
copy xx.vsix "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions"
or
copy xx.vsix %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft"
Registering Visual Studio extensions is complicated process. For pre 2010 VS editions you need to copy appropriate files (.dll/.zip template/.regpkg...) into some folder and then write keys into registry with paths, settings, etc. (many, many keys).
These keys/settings are based on extension you are developing (LanguageService, Package, Add-in, ...)
After 2010 VS editions have new feature - .vsix extensions which is simple .zip archive containing all required files and registry keys.
You need to copy this .vsix file into some folder (recommended is inside VS install directory or other known folder as %VSInstallDir%\\) and then setup VS to load it (like running devenv.com /setup)
Read this blog for more info about discovering VS extensions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2010/02/19/how-vsix-extensions-are-discovered-and-loaded-in-vs-2010.aspx
I'm using GitSCC with VS 2100 and it works really nice. Although I prefer offline installations that didn't bother me until now. Now I have to install it on the computer which cannot have a network connection (I mean it can have, but it doesn't) so I need the part which is installed from within VS 2010 (GitScc plugin) in the form of offline installer.
Anyone knows where it can be found?
Google it! First link that I found Visual Studio 2010 version is only available with extension manager.
Visual Studio 2008 is still available as an offline install.
You can download the VSIX from the gallery site, then double-click the file to install it.