How to change the installation location in VS2017, currently its showing in the gray shade (Read-only) like:
Please check this doc: Change the installation locations in VS 2017 and those locations is set with your first installation and cannot be changed later from the installer UI. If you just want to move the download cache, you can use command-line parameters and for others, please try to clean up the installed VS like the following and re-install it:
• See if you have this file on your machine: "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe"
• If so, please launch it from an admin command prompt with a -full param:
InstallCleanup.exe -full
• If not, please manually delete the "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer” folder
• Relaunch the newly downloaded vs_enterprise.exe (or vs_professional.exe or vs_community.exe…)
• Allow the first step to install the installer
• Once the installer comes up and you can see workload choices (.net desktop and the like), close it
• Go launch the same InstallCleanup.exe to clean up old build of VS
• Then re-run the VS installer to install
BTW, this method can reduce the installation footprint on your system drive but there are some tools and SDKs that have different rules on where they can be are installed. These tools and SDKs will still be installed on your system drive even if you choose another location.
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I uninstalled Visual Studio 2019 and installed it as 2022.
I reinstalled Flutter.
When building Flutter desktop, the following problem is repeated.
If I run it in another project, it works without any problem.
Launching lib\main.dart on Windows in debug mode...
Building Windows application...
Nuget is not installed.
Nuget.exe not found, trying to download or use cached version.
1- make sure you have installed Visual Studio
2-
NuGet Package Manager (PM UI and PM Console) is included with Visual
Studio. The latest NuGet releases are delivered as part of Visual
Studio updates.
HOWEVER: nuget.exe itself is not included with any version of Visual Studio.
so you need to download the latest NuGet Windows x86 Commandline from https://www.nuget.org/downloads
3- put it inside the flutter sdk folder or any folder you like
4- copy the folder path
5- in windows serach, search for env so you can put it as system variables. edit path with a new line and past the folder path
6- restart android studio
7- congrats
there's a video on youtube for the exact steps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b5sj6mG8M
Although I don't know why it would work without this error message on the same machine, I recently ran into this issue as well. The way I fixed it was to download the nuget executable and add it to my path.
I Have A Problem And That Is :
I've Tried To Install An Extension From Visual Studio 2019 Extension Manager's MarketPlace
e.g (CodeMaid)
So I've Clicked And Downloaded It , When I've Restarted Visual Sudio To Install That Extension But Installer Said : The Install Of "CodeMaid" Extension For Visual Studio Was Not Successful for All the selected products.For More Information Click On The Install Log Link at the bottom of the dialog.]
Note That I Have Installed My Visual Studio In My H: Drive.
Please Help Me :(
I've Tried Any Extension To Install But They All NOT Installed Successfully e.g I Tried To Install Resharper But The Resharper Can't Detect My Visual Studio
(Sorry for My Bad English)
I Have The Screenshot Here:
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You can install extension with .vsix file. Firstly, go to https://open-vsx.org/ and download the extension that you want.After downloading you will get VSIX file.Final step: open visual studio and go to EXTENSIONS.Click option icon(•••) and find and click (install from VSIX) and then choose your downloaded .vsix file. Done.
I've Tried Any Extension To Install But They All NOT Installed
Successfully e.g I Tried To Install Resharper But The Resharper Can't
Detect My Visual Studio
Please try these steps to troubleshoot your issue:
1) delete all vs componment caches under C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_xxxxx\ComponentModelCache and do not forget to delete all the files under C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp
2) disable any third party extensions under Extensions-->Manage Extensions to prevent any other extensions affect it.
3) run VS as administrator and then install the extension again.
4) do a repair in VS Installer
5) If your VS2019 is not the latest version, please update it to the latest version and please update your OS at the same time.
In addition, if all the steps does not work, l suggest you chould reinstall VS2019 and you would better install VS2019 on the default system disk. And there is a similar issue.
After you uninstall VS2019, please check if you have this:%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe.
If so, please launch it from an admin command prompt with a -full param: InstallCleanup.exe -full
If not, please manually delete the %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer folder
Then relaunch vs_enterprise.exe and then install VS2019.
I recently try to install Visual Studio 2017. But there is no offline installer. How to get offline installer for it.
I also tried to install Xamarin. Eventhough I have latest Android SDK, it ask me to download Android SDK again. How to rectify it?
Thanks in advance.
To produce an offline installer you first need to download the corresponding online installer, which will give you an installation file similar to one of these:
vs_enterprise.exe - Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, download here
vs_professional.exe - Visual Studio 2017 Professional, download here
vs_community.exe - Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, download here
Then all you have to do is this:
vs_WHATEVER.exe --layout path-to-empty-directory
Example, to create an offline installer for Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition you first download the online installer, then you execute this:
vs_community.exe --layout d:\temp
This will fill D:\Temp with all the files necessary to install Visual Studio.
Note: The installer will open a console window as part of its process, you need to wait until this window closes before you can safely use the contents of this folder.
There will be many sub-directories, depending on the packages available, but you will also have the original executable you downloaded placed into this directory. Executing this from this directory will install using the provided packages.
Also note that by default, unless you manually specify --add and package id's, all the packages will be downloaded. You will thus get a complete and current version to install offline. However, if you specify packages with the --add parameter, only the specified packages will be downloaded.
Source: Create a network installation of Visual Studio 2017
According to various web pages, orca.msi/orca.exe is primarily distributed as part of the Windows SDK.
I have Visual Studio 2015 Professional Update 3 installed. I have installed all the "Universal Windows App Development Tools" components, which includes three different versions of the Windows 10 SDK (10.0.14393, 10.0.10586, 10.0.10240).
But I can't find orca.msi or orca.exe anywhere on my machine. Is this tool no longer packaged with the Windows SDKs? Do I need to install one of the older Windows SDKs as well? Is there an optional Visual Studio 2015 component that I can install to get Orca?
An MSDN page for orca.exe eventually leads me to a download page for Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Is this the most recent SDK which includes orca.msi, or can it be found in newer SDKs such as the Win7/.NET4.0 or Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 SDKs?
Thanks to the confirmation from #pnp0a03 that Orca is still present in modern Windows SDK ISOs, I was able to figure out an install process which does not require re-downloading the full ISO.
It turns out that the Windows 10 SDK can install orca (though the file is now named orca-x86_en-us.msi) but it is not installed by default when you install the SDK via the Visual Studio installer. It is an optional component of the SDK, and the Visual Studio 2015 installer does not offer any control over which SDK components are installed. You have to separately run the SDK installer to install the component which contains Orca.
To do so, go to "Apps and Features", select the most recent Windows Software Development Kit from the installed apps list, and click "Modify".
This starts the installation wizard for the SDK itself.
Now you can edit which SDK features are installed. Select "MSI Tools" and click Change:
After the wizard completes, the Orca installer can now be found in the SDK's install path. On my machine, that's located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi. Running that MSI package installs the latest version of Orca itself.
You can pick it from Windows SDK ISO.
Download the latest SDK ISO Image. Current one is 16299.15.
Mount it with Explorer and open the directory Installers. You can find the Orca-x86_en-us.msi.
Downloads Windows 10 SDK
We can download the latest Windows 10 SDK from here
When installing the SDK installer, select below feature alone and proceed installation
"MSI Tools"
Check below folder and look for Orca-x86_en-us.msi
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x86
NOTE: In my C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin folder, I see multiple versions of windows 10 and one can see the orca MSI under the latest version number folder (under x86)
I was able to successfully download and install it the following way:
Download the Windows SDK as ISO file
Right-click on the ISO file (*_release_WindowsSDK.iso) and select "Mount"
Go to folder "Installers", find and extract "Orca-x86_en-us.msi" (drag and drop it to a local folder outside of the ISO)
Do the same with the 3 cab files listed below:
Double click the file "Orca-x86_en-us.msi", and Orca will be added to the Windows start menu.
NOTE: In the link provided above, you can find an archive of older, as well as newer Windows versions too - if required.
How to get orca installed without downloading the entire ISO
Go here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/
Click to download the installer (not the .iso)
Follow the prompts until you get this screen, where you uncheck everything but MSI stuff.
After the install completes, search the install folder for Orca.msi and
install it. It is usually in:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.22000.0\x86\Orca-x86_en-us.msi"
After installing Visual Studio 2015 I am able to use the new editor features to add dependencies to Node packages and restore etc from within a Web project as per this documentation: http://webtooling.visualstudio.com/package-managers/npm/
Presumably Visual Studio must install node/npm somewhere in order to support these features, however it does not seem to modify my PATH to make these tools available on the command line (or via Visual Studio 2015 Command Prompt).
If I want to perform some npm operations on my project from the command line can I do this without installing node/npm again (which might become out of sync with the version of npm/node that Visual Studio is using) or is there a way to access the node/npm installation Visual Studio is using from the command line?
VS2015 installs node using Joyent's installer. It depends on the system-wide install and it does not have it's own specific or local version.
If you're command line is unable to find node.exe, I would first check your path property in your environment variables and add it if it's missing (it should be C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs). If you see node's install directory there but still can't access it from the command line, reboot. Sometimes Windows needs to restart before it uses the updated path variable.
Hope that helps.