My VS-Enterprise license expired over the new year so I installed the community version.
When I go to the control panel it just shows me "Visual Studio Community 2017 (2)" and no option for Visual Studio Enterprise 2017. Also, when I search for the enterprise version and right-click uninstall, it brings me to the same "Visual Studio Community 2017 (2)" in the control panel.
Is there a way of uninstalling enterprise through the community version?
Uninstall Visual Studio
Find the Visual Studio Installer on your computer.
For example, on a computer running Windows 10 Anniversary Update, select Start and scroll to the letter V, where it is listed as Visual Studio Installer.
Alternatively, you can find the Visual Studio Installer in the following location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\vs_installer.exe
Click to start the installer, click the Details icon icon, and then click Uninstall.
Click OK to confirm your choice.
Uninstall Visual Studio Installer
To completely remove all installations of Visual Studio 2017 as well as the Visual Studio Installer from your machine, uninstall it from Apps & Features.
Open Apps & Features. For example, in Windows 10, select Start, and in the search bar, type Apps and Features.
Find Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.
Click Uninstall.
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I am trying to build a VS 2017 solution which includes a Visual Studio Installer Project with the just released Visual Studio Pro 2019. Of course, when I tried to open the solution I got an error because there was not Visual Studio Installer project type in VS 2019. And, I cant find a place to load it from.
How do I add a Visual Studio Installer Project type in the released version of VS 2019?
Install the addin in Visual Studio 2019:
This extension provides the same functionality that currently exists
in Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio Installer projects. To use
this extension, you can either open the Extensions and Updates dialog,
select the online node, and search for "Visual Studio Installer
Projects Extension," or you can download directly from this page.
This extension is designed to work with Visual Studio 2017 and
Visual Studio 2019.
I installed Visual Studio 2015 Preview, when I am trying to uninstall it by rerunning vs_Enterprise.exe, in the end it gives me this:
I also installed Visual Studio 2017 RC, trying to uninstall in the same way it gives the same error message.
When I click 'Modify' from
It gives me this error:
Now both are stuck there, I can't remove them and also can't reinstall them.
I also tried the possible solutions which I can find from google, and none of these works:
Uninstall from control panel:
Can't find Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2017 RC in control panel's Programs and Features window
Run vs_enterprise.exe by using the /uninstall /force command-line:
can't find vs_enterprise.exe from Package Cache folders, somewhere like this:
"%ProgramData%\Package Cache",
Use VisualStudioUninstaller:
This doesn't work either.
When you install the VS 2017 RC on the Pc that already installed the VS “15” preview, the prior previews of Visual Studio "15" must be uninstalled first, so you not need to uninstall the VS “15” preview again. During installation of Visual Studio 2017 RC, a cleaning tool will automatically be run on your machine that will detect artifacts from a prior preview installation and then remove them, you can check Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Visual Studio 2017 RC.
To uninstall the VS 2017 RC and VS "15" preview edition, you can try to directly remove those 3 folders: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\VS15Preview, %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017 and %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages, then re-run the VS 2007 RC installer as administrator, it should display as a new installation.
I want to uninstall Visual studio 2008 from my system, but I do not see Visual studio 2008 in the list on the "Uninstall or change a program" dialog box in windows 7. I also checked the Visual Studio 2008 folder in the Programs folder, but I could not find anything to start the uninstallation wizard. Please help.
Here is a Visual Studio 2008 Uninstall Tool that might help you: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joy/archive/2009/10/16/microsoft-visual-studio-2008-rc-rtm-uninstall-tool.aspx
I have a project in a solution I am working on in Visual Studio 2012, and I get this message for one of the projects: "This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed, or does not support them." It is a vdproj. What does this mean and how do I resolve this problem
The correct procedure to resolve "Incompatible" issue with VDPROJ Projects coming from Visual Studio 2010 and 2015 in 2017 or 2019 is:
Enter Visual Studio .NET 2017 or 2019
2017: Click on "Tools" -> Extension and Updates -> Online
2019: Click on "Extensions" -> Manage Extensions -> Online
Type "Installer Project" on the search box
Click on "Install" in Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
Restart Visual Studio .NET and follow the instructions to install the extension
With this extension the old project (2010, 2015) is capable to work in (2017, 2019). VDPROJ are not deprecated, simply they are improved with a new extension, for more information about this please visit the oficial MarketPlace.
There is also the official:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Installer Projects
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects (2017 & 2019)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Installer Projects
if you can jump to VS 2013, 2015, 2017+2019, or 2022
But BozoJoe is right, its time to drop vdproj and move on to WiX.
vdproj is a MSI creation project for Visual Studio. Its been deprecated and most people have moved on to either WIX or NSIS or a professional grade installer creation tools such as Install Shield.
If you do not require an installer for your product just exclude the vdproj project from the solution and continue with your life
for fun if you want to try to transition right away to wix, try this powershell script https://github.com/chrisoldwood/vdproj2wix
Visual Studio 2017 can use the Visual Studio Installer. It is NOT a default. You have to run InstallerProjects.vsix. You can get it at Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects. I have used it and worked great, at least for a windows GUI project. It's worth a shot before you get into the Install Shield intricacies.
if You use Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project (Vs2017).
Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project may be disabled after an update.
Tools -> Extensions and Updates..
Click Installed
Find and Select -> Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Project
do Enable
Restart Visual Studio
I installed the free version of ApexSQL which is awesome in SSMS, but I really don't want all those menus in Visual Studio. I went to add-in manager and unchecked them, but the Startup column is checked and disabled so every time I restart Visual Studio they come back.
Is it possible to permanently remove the ApexSQL menus from Visual Studio?
If you have ApexSql installed and you don't want those pesky menus in Visual Studio do 2 things.
In Visual Studio, go to Tools > Add-in Manager and uncheck the ApexSql addins. Close Visual Studio.
In Windows 7, there's a hidden folder C:\ProgramData. In Windows Explorer go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns folder. Edit each of the *.MsvsLoader.Addin files and set <LoadBehavior> to 0. If you can't save the files directly, you'll have to save the files to a different location (desktop maybe) and then copy them back into C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns because there's some Admin privilege required.
Now when you restart VS those ApexSQL menus should be gone
The issue of crowding menus is resolved in latest releases, now all ApexSQL add-ins are under the main ApexSQL menu as sub-menus. They look like this now:
If you don't need ApexSQL add-ins in VS or SSMS you can simply choose not to integrate them with VS or SSMS during the installation, just check out SSMS ot VS version in which you want the add-ins integrated
Note: To get this dialog in which you can check the wanted integration you need to use individual installers not the main one. You can find all individual installers on this link
Disclaimer: I work for ApexSQL as a Support Engineer
For Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7, I attempted #Chris Bayles suggestion and do not see ApexSql addins under Tools->Add-in Manager.
I followed #Jerome2606's pointer to https://knowledgebase.apexsql.com/remove-add-ins-just-visual-studio-retaining-sql-server-management-studio/ and it worked for me, but only when I removed the parent ApexSQL folder as well.
Summary of what is required to do:
Remove folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ApexSQL
Depending on the version of Visual Studio, the version number in the default installation location will be different:
Product name Version number
Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0
Visual Studio 2012 Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
Visual Studio 2013 Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
Visual Studio 2015 Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0
Select and delete the ApexSQL folder and its contents.
Open Command Prompt as an administrator, then run
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup
Please note the command is different for Visual Studio 2012, 2013, and 2015.
If you are using SSMS v18.0 then you can disable the apex features in following way.
You can find the ApexSQL.Complete.Addin.SSMS18.pkgdef file from following path.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\Extensions\ApexSQL Complete
Then open this file in Notepad++ Administrator mode and comment the content.
If you need further reading follow this link.
https://knowledgebase.apexsql.com/remove-apexsql-tools-sql-server-management-studio/