The Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects web pag at VisualStudio Marketplace has a Download button for offline installation, but the resulting file is a compressed file InstallerProjects.zip which contains lots of different folders and files but no installation instructions. How do I install this extension?
Even though the file is called InstallerProjects.zip, it is actually a .vsix file and can be installed as explained in this answer:
There is an app called: VSIXInstaller.exe. Its exact location depends on which version of Visual Studio you are using; for me it is located at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE
Right-clicked on the extension file > Open-With > Choose Default Program > More Options > Scroll down to 'Look for another app on this PC' > navigate to the location of VSIXInstaller.exe and select it.
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I am supposed to do an offline installation of vstest.console.exe in the folder path as follows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow
I have tried using offline packages such as vs_testagent.exe and vs_testcontroller.exe according to the following link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-a-network-installation-of-visual-studio. However, these packages do not contain vstest.console.exe.
I am also unable to do a full installation of VS2017 due to space issues. Do anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
Download the nuget package: Microsoft.TestPlatform, rename it a zip file. Open the zip file, you will find all you need from this folder: .\tools\net451\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform, including vstest.console.exe, testhost.**.exe, QTAgent.exe, datacollector.exe.
If you added the nuget package to project, it just downloads the package to packages folder and won't complie to bin, so you have to add a Post-Build event to copy files to bin folder from the packages folder.
You are looking for "Build Tools for Visual Studio" (Microsoft login required). It will give you an installer "vs_BuildTools.exe", which will install by default the build tools in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools
(by default)
Two versions of vstest console were installed when I ran it:
...\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe
...\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform\vstest.console.exe
I do not know why, nor how they are different. I use the first one.
I used the chocolatey package visualstudio2019testagent to install VS 2019 Test Agent.
Not sure if this would help someone in the future.
Download the Visual Studio Build Tools installer from https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=build%20tools%20for%20visual%20studio
Run the installer, click the tab Individual components and select Testing tool core features - Build Tools
After installation the vstest.console.exe is located in folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow
I installed Visual Studio Code a few days ago, and now I can't find the executable on my machine. Where is it?
I have checked Programs and Features. I have also checked my PATH. For some reason it isn't in either.
Update 10.11.2018
If you do a complete re-install, including uninstalling prior versions of code installed on your machine the new version will be installed at
C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
Update 06.07.2018
Since Version 1.25 VS Code supports portable mode.
Instructions on how to use this are documented here.
You will need the ZIP file download version - not the installer.
After unzipping the contents of the archive, create a data folder inside the folder, where code.exe is located. All settings will now be saved there and can be brought along with you.
|- VSCode-win32-x64-1.25.0-insider
| |- Code.exe (or code executable)
| |- data
| |- ...
On macOS, the folder must be named code-portable-data and has to be a sibling of the app itself. Not inside the app.
|- Visual Studio Code.app
|- code-portable-data
The reasoning behind this can be read here: What is VSCode User Setup for Windows?
Update
If you are using the x64 version, the path is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe
Original answer
At this point and time (Version 1.19.2) Vs code no longer resides in your AppData folder, but under
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe
There are two types of installer available for VSCode.
Go to link to find type of installer you want.
If you are using/going for User Installer, the version will be installed at:
C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code
If you are using/going for 64bit System installer, the version will be installed at:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\
If you are using/going for 32bit System installer, the version will be installed at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\
I used the new VSCode User Setup installer on Windows 10, and found the executable here:
C:\Users\my-username\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\
Okay. I found it in the docs.
C:\Users\my.user\AppData\Local\Code\app-0.1.0
The way I find most intuitive and easy to remember is:
Search for Visual Studio Code in the Windows 10 search bar -> right-click -> Open File Location
For me this goes directly to:
C:\Users\{YOUR_NAME}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio Code
Right-click on the shortcut -> Properties -> Start in:
"C:\Users\{YOUR_NAME}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code"
If you prefer username-agnostic path strings:
folder: %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\
executable: %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\code
If you also want to use those path strings inside C#/C++ code:
folder: "\"%HOMEPATH%\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Microsoft VS Code\\\""
executable: "\"%HOMEPATH%\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Microsoft VS Code\\bin\\code\""
If for some reason none of the other answers work, try this:
Go into your vscode settings
Find any setting that has 'Edit in settings.json' (for example - Color Customizations)
Press ctrl+shift+s
Go one folder up
Copy + paste the file location (on the top for windows) into into another file explorer
Profit
The difference is:
System Installer will install VSC in C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\
User Installer will install VSC in %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\
Search for the files with respect the version installed.
Why default your program would be installed here..
C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\
If you have chosen different directory while installing it you can get it by:
1. Go to the icon location
2. Right click open properties
3. Check target
I found it at
C:\Users\%username%\source\repos\Notes\%VSCode-folder%\bin\Debug\
Where %username% is the user and %VSCode-folder% is the VSCode project
I installed the CTP of the multi-device-hybrid apps and the new app templates didn't show up in VS. The add-in also didn't show up in the Extensions & Updates list in VS. Trying to Uninstall it claimed to work instantly, but didn't uninstall anything.
This is an odd situation and should generally not occur. It seems the VSIX file got copied over but was not installed correctly.
Here's the work around (run using an administrative command prompt):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common \IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe" /admin /uninstall:MultiDeviceHybridApps..db151788-9b27-49db-a5e2-d25a2653eb83
This removed the broken entries for the VSIX from the previous failed attempt to install. Following this, issue another command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe" "%localappdata\Microsoft\MultiDeviceHybridApps\Microsoft.VisualStudio.MultiDeviceHybridApps.vsix" /admin
At this point, the VSIX should be installed successfully and the templates will become available in Visual Studio.
If I have a VS 2005 solution then it shows up as "Version: Visual Studio 2005". If I have a VS 2010 solution, the sln file shows up as related to that.
Both of them have a .sln suffix. So how does Windows know which version of VS to open it with?
It uses Property Handler and Icon Handler shell extensions (part of the Visual Studio Version Selector)
These are registered by the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln (referenced by HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sln)
When you open the file, it runs "c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe" "%1", which reads the version from the .sln file and open the correct version.
How do you remove the following noise templates that don't even work?
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
To save a bit of time for 2010 users, the folder has moved:
...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates
For Visual Studio 2013, I found my template cache here:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache
Deleting them off of disk should do the trick. Where they exist will depend a bit on where you installed them. If you installed them for all users they will be at
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual studio 9.0\Common7\Ide\ProjectTemplatesCache
For a single user they will be at
%USERPROFILE%\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
EDIT
If InstallVSTemplates fails, it is likely one of the following. The one I can't help with is some program randomly dumping files inside of the ProjectTemplatesCache directory.
The other more likely cause is there is a bad template in the ProjectTemplates directory. InstallVSTemplates really just goes through this directory, and unzips all of the files into the ProjectTemplatesCache directory. You will have to search through this directory and find the .zip file which contains the junk files being added to your project Once you find the file, delete it, delete ProjectTemplatesCache, and then re-run InstallVSTemplates.
After manually searching for some of the custom profile templates(.vstemplate),I found them at the following location:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
It appears VS2010 installs some of the templates as extesions or the authors made it that way.I hope this helps someone.
May need to run "devenv /setup" at the run command to refresh the VS2010 after you delete the templates.
For me it was a matter of removing it from here using VS2017:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_45552a03\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete the bad/unwanted project folders from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
Clear cache
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete stuff from (perhaps not necessary)
C:\Users[Your User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and finally open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator and run
devenv /installvstemplates
For me the issue got resolved when I deleted the cache.bin file from ItemTemplatesCache folder. Full path of this folder is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
Also make sure you delete the template files from below locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
C:\Users\Default\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
C:\Users[NT-USERNAME]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
For Visual Studio 2019:
Extensions > Manage extensions > Installed > Uninstall
Worke for VS 2012 and 2015 :
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
worke in VS 2019 :
1- In VS2019, custom templates can be removed by deleting the template folder from %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{VSVersion}\ProjectTemplatesCache. Look for a {VSVersion} that begins with "16".
https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6SQ5.png
2- Delete What You Want From Templates Folder in {C:\Users\USERName\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates}
Notes :
{ProjectTemplatesCache} Or {ItemTemplatesCache}
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9BM9p.png
For Visual Studio Express 2010 you should delete all folders under
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VCSExpress\10.0\Extensions
For Visual Studio 2013 Community, you have to delete {program folder}\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\cache.bin after deleting all the unwanted files as described above. Afterwards VS will rebuild the templates listing in the New Project... dialog.
You could also try this:
dotnet new --uninstall <PATH|NUGET_ID>
It works for me in VS 2019 and VS 2022 to uninstall the Avalonia templates.
Description
The dotnet new --uninstall command uninstalls a template package at the PATH or NUGET_ID provided. When the <PATH|NUGET_ID> value isn't specified, all currently installed template packages and their associated templates are displayed. When specifying NUGET_ID, don't include the version number.
Examples
Uninstall the Avalonia templates
dotnet new --uninstall Avalonia.Templates
From MicrosoftDocs
If the template was installed by double clicking a VSIX file, it is considered an extension and can be uninstalled using the technique described by Hamid Behnam above. Otherwise, it can be deleted from one of the template directories mentioned above.
It looks like in each case we use different recipe. Unfortunately, commands line and VS menu command listed in this thread did not work in my case, which is MS VS 2019 Community Edition on Win7 x64:
First, close VS, remove unwanted *.zip files from all following folders, as well as hidden cache.bin file from the last \ProjectTemplatesCache folder (it will be restored at VS startup), then restart VS. Here are those 3 folders:
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
{User}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{Number}\ProjectTemplatesCache