Since a few weeks I have had this infuriating problem.
Whenever I start VS it opens an empty environment.
I tried to change that in Options > Environment > Startup from "Empty environment" to "Start window". After pressing "OK" I restarted VS completely and reopened it. Again: a new empty environment opens.
After reinstalling VS several times now I gave up and want to know, if someone had a similar problem and knows a fix for this problem.
Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 (16.8.3)
Installed Workloads from VS-Installer:
ASP.NET and web development
Azure development
Python development
.NET desktop development
Desktop development with C++
Data storage and processing
.NET Core cross-platform development
Additional Extensions:
JetBrains ReSharper 2020.2.4
Visual Studio Tools for Tizen
*all the extensions are up-to-date
After MONTHS I finally found a solution. I basically tried to uninstall all extensions and discovered that this issue only occurs while ReSharper is installed. I didn't find anything regarding this on the internet, therefore I searched all of the options and I finally found the issue!
If you have the same issue and have ReSharper installed (currently 2020.3.3) open Visual Studio and go to Extensions/ReSharper/Options. A new window will pop up. Then navigate to Environment/Performance Guide and under the group Visual Studio preferences affecting performance you'll find the item Show empty environment at startup. Set it from Fix Silently to Ignore. Click Save and close this window.
Additionally, you have reset the specific Visual Studio option. Therefore open Tools/Options and navigate to Environment/Startup and set the On startup, open: to Start window. Click OK and restart Visual Studio to check if the Start Window now gets displayed correctly.
I am attempting to log into Microsoft Visual Studio, so I can connect to TFS, and I am unable to login.
After I enter my credentials, it acts like everything is good to go but I do not login in the top right. When I hover over Sign in I get an error stating "Another instance of the application is already in the process of signing in."
I did just remove my user settings because of another issue not allowing me to actually connect to anything because I just branched a product.
I have attempted to shutdown the computer, restart visual Studio, reinstall visual studio and I also reinstalled microsoft office; as well as. added the two sites mentioned from another forum to my trusted sites (*.accesscontrol.windows.net)(https://app.vsaex.visualstudio.com/me?mkt=en-US). if anyone has any information on this that would be greatly appreciated. Thank You
Just try below things to narrow down the VS sign in issue:
Disable any Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware software on your
computer, navigate to <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE
and run the following commands: devenv.exe /resetuserdata, it will
take a couple of minutes to run as Visual Studio cleans up and sets
itself back to its original state.
Close visual studio --> delete the following registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSCommon\ConnectedUser\IdeUserV2
--> restart visual studio --> Try and sign in
Remove credenticals from Credential Manager (Control Panel\All
Control Panel Items\Credential Manager)
Clean VS caches:
Close Visual Studio (ensure devenv.exe is not present in the Task
Manager)
Delete the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache directory
Restart Visual Studio.
Open the following file in notepad:
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add
65.52.55.39 and app.vsspsext.visualstudio.com then re-open vs and try the sign in again.
However it's not necessary to sing in Visual Studio if you just want to connect to TFS. You can only manage the connections in Team Explorer. When you add a new TFS server and try to connect, it will prompt to enter the credetical. Just enter the appropriate TFS credentical to connect the TFS server.
When I try to add new item to project in visual studio 2015 I always get this message
Access is denied.
The file is created and added to the project, but it is not added to Source Control, although the project is in source control. However, when I try to manually add the file to source control by right-clicking in Solution Explorer -> Add to source control, the file is added to TFS.
I have upgraded to windows 10 and installed Visual Studio 2015. I'm working on existing solution in C:\Projects\ and the solution was created and added to source control before I upgraded.
EDIT: If I run VS in admin mode, the error is gone
Access is denied. returns very little information. For more detail info, you can repro the error and run a procmon trace using Process Monitor tool filtered on DEVENV.EXE. Detail for how to use the tool: http://www.mztools.com/articles/2008/MZ2008024.aspx
Normally, this error message can be corrected with the followings:
Add your Windows account to the Administrators group on the local PC
Run your Visual Studio in Administrator mode.
Check if your project folder is set to read only.
As Alex suggests find devenv.exe and run it . when search for devenv.exe then I found it's there . When I run this file getting error "cannot find one or more components .Please reinstall the application" .I re-installed visual studio thrice still getting same error . How to fix this error .
It's visual studio ultimate with update 3 . I don't have ISO file , file automatically downloaded by installer.It's got installed smoothly i.e. without giving any error .
Edit:
Initial question was How to create shortcut on windows 8.1 for visual studio ?
Contents :
Today I installed visual studio 2013 with windows phone SDK and Multi-device Hybrid apps on windows 8.1 .Unfortunately I am unable to find any shortcuts related to any one of the applications which are installed today .
How can I create shortcut or which file should I execute to open IDE ?
One answer would be search in search charm ,it's not there . I tried all methods that i could .
Following folders are there in windows 8.1 program files
C:\Program Files\iTunes
C:\Program Files\iPod
C:\Program Files\Windows Identity Foundation
C:\Program Files\Hyper-V
C:\Program Files\Common Files
C:\Program Files\IIS Express
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Extensions
C:\Program Files\SharePoint Client Components
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server
C:\Program Files\Application Verifier
C:\Program Files\MSBuild
C:\Program Files\IIS
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0
Many folders are there related to these apps in programfilesx86 .
Same problem for me. My solution:
Open command prompt as administrator
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE
devenv /resetuserdata
I had solved the same issue on VS2012 as following steps:
• Use regedit.exe
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio
• Delete "11.0_Config" & "11.0 node"
notice: 11.0 as your VS version
• Restart VS2012
VS env will be constructed initially.
Hope this help.
BR
Problem is with security setting .
After 2-3 hours of Googling i found many solution but none of them work then i tried these solutions .
There is one folder in your machine: "C:\ProgramData".
Don't worry if you don't see this folder, unhide all the folders, you will find it there.
I did not had the rights on "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio" .
See if you have full rights on the same.
If your are not able to open this folder, This means that you do not have rights on this.
to give rights follow the steps below :
1) Right click on the folder "VisualStudio."
2) Go to Properties->Security. See if your PC name is there in the user names list,
if not , then add it.
3) Go to Advanced -> Owner -> Edit -> Other users or groups. add your PC name,
i.e add yourself as the owner of the folder and give full rights.
Which is found here Application-data-folder-error . I was unable to change security of ProgramData files then i tried this solution .
1. On the root folder, right click, select properties, select security tab.
2. Click Advanced
3. The window that pops up should show the current owner. Click "Change."
The "Select User or Group" pop up box appears.
4. In the text box, type in your current user name (you should be an admin), and hit the
"Check Names" button. Your name will be replaced with the "official" system
name (i.e.,preceded by computer name and back slash).
5. Click OK
6. The box disappears, sending you back to the Advanced Security Settings window.
7. A new tick box appears below owner, with the text "Replace owner on subcontainers and
objects" Select this tick box.
8. I also selected the tick box "Replace all child object permission entries
with inheritable permission entries from this object", but I think I had to run this twice
- once with this box ticked and once without.
9. Make sure that "everyone" appears on the Permission entries window, if not,
click add. The same box that appears in step 4 shows up again.
Type everyone, click "Check Names" and then "OK"
10. Hit apply
which is found here Permission error.
Finally it works cheers :) Hope it will help to some other .
%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe should work. The VS version number (12.0) depends on your installed Visual Studio, of course.
Oh, and if you're on a 32-bit install of Windows, then use:
%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
I have come across this problem while installing VS 2015 community. For me the problem was that I had ThreatFire running, which prevented VS from loading some dll. Deinstalling ThreatFire was the only solution. You cannot just stop it, as the actual service will still continue to run.
In general, thats how I figured out what the problem is:
Download and extract Windows Process Monitor https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896645.aspx
Run Process Monitor, include Process devenv.exe to the filters, exlcude Result SUCCESS, and click ok.
Process Monitor will display a huge list of file and registry accesses. Go through the list and look for events with Result ACCESS DENIED or FILE/PATH NOT FOUND. (You can filter the list even more using right click context menu)
That should give you usefull hints about what is really going wrong as the VS error message really is no help at all. You can also view the stack trace that generated the event. Thats how I found out about ThreatFire blocking dll loading.
For Visual Studio 2015 I had to delete these keys in regedit.exe:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config
One possible user friendly workaround is to use the take ownership method from How to Geek and use it on %USERPROFILE%\AppData and on C:\ProgramData where C is the disk partition holding your OS. However you'll need to make hidden folders visible first. Then navigate to your VS installation folder and run devenv /resetuserdata.
Was facing the same issue with VSExpress 2015 (win 10).
Fixed the problem by removing the registry key in
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\
AppCompatFlags\Layers]
Refer the link for more details
http://maditguy72.blogspot.ru/2013/06/cannot-find-one-or-more-components.html
I had the same problem, and I have fixed it.
You should check the name of the folder in which you installed visual studio.
If its name has been changed, windows can not find the components to execute. For this reason, windows will show an error message box to you
I'm on windows 7 32bits SP1. this worked for me :
run cmd.exe with elevated privileges (run as administrator). then execute :
cd c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 15.0\common7\ide
devenv.exe /resetuserdata
devenv.exe
before that I tried to give full rights (for my user account and also the weird Account-unknown(S1-5-21-13113034....) ) to these folders: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 14.0 and c:\users\_myname_\appdata\local\microsoft
note that when installing visual studio, I changed the default folder name to c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 2015 so maybe it is related to the bug seen later ?
I had the same problem, and it turned out to be that my password on my local admin account expired. I use a regular account to login to Windows, but run Visual Studio as Administrator. Upon opening Visual Studio as Administrator, it prompts me for my local admin credentials, and because my password had expired, it gives me this error message.
Solution: Log out of Windows. Switch users, and login as the local admin. Windows will tell you that your password has expired. Change the password, and log out. Log back in as your normal user account, and try running Visual Studio again, this time entering the new admin password.
To fix this issue
Start regedit.exe
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio
Delete 11.0_Config
Restart ssms.exe
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/b6d2b85d-c6e1-464a-85e0-e0625e7fb305/microsoft-visual-studio-shell-isolated-cannot-find-one-or-more-components?forum=sqlexpress
This is probably specific to people working with Isolated Shell applications based on VS 2015, but I found that two registry values were sometimes getting set with incorrect values, leading to this error on startup. Simply delete them from the registry and start again:
HKCU\Software\Company\TheApp\1.0_Config\Initialization\PkgDefSearchPath
HKCU\Software\Company\TheApp\1.0_Config\Initialization\RelativeRootFolderPath
For Visual Studio 2015, replace Company\TheApp\1.0_Config with Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config.
Go to regedit.
Renaming HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio fixed problem for me.
No need to reinstall just reset devenv data…
cd c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 15.0\common7\ide
devenv.exe /resetuserdata
Run VS2013/12 with administrator rights.
It will work fine.
Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 Version 15.8.6
Run cmd as administrator, then:
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE
devenv /resetuserdata
For users experiencing this issue who has tried all the above answers, this is what worked for me for Visual Studio 2015:
After uninstalling/reinstalling Visual Studio 2015, if you're still experencing the "Cannot find one or more components" error, open up Add or Remove Programs from the Windows search bar.
Uninstall any redistributables from 2015 and 2017 if applicable.
If you happen to have the offline install folder for Visual Studio 2015 - navigate to the "packages/vcRedistD14" folder and install both the 32 bit and 64 bit redistributable packages. Otherwise, download them from the MS website.
Attempt to open Visual Studio 2015, it should be working normally now.
I haven't attempted to reinstall the 2017 redist packages, but for the purposes of getting 2015 working again, this is what worked for me. Another option if you already have them installed, is to simply Repair the redist packages.
Running cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE
devenv /resetuserdata using the command prompt works fine.
The only thing which everyone has missed is that you will have to reboot your PC after running the above command. I was having same error after running the command several times but was fixed after I rebooted my machine.
And of course for VS 2015 replace Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0 with Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0
restart you laptop it will be fixed.it work for me
well, it seems simple but it work like magic
input visual studio in your windows search bar then
right click on the visual studio app and
choose run as administrator
all things been equal, it should run without an itch
I get the following dialog when I try to load any DB project in Visual Studio.
There is nothing else locking it, nor are the permissions on that specific folder restrictive.
This used to work, but I re-installed VS2008, then Sp1, a few hot fixes and GDR2.
Now, when I try to load any DB project, I get the dialog above.
When I open VS, I get the following dialog; it's different, but message is the same..
Try opening Visual Studio as Administrator.
You can check locks on files by using process explorer:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/processlock.htm
You can download process explorer here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653