After Windows 10 auto installed the Anniversary Update, along with installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (using Visual Studio Enterprise Edition), any time I try to use the Find in Files, or Replace in Files window has a scrambled UI, and no am unable to click / use any of the controls.
I have attached screen shots of the Find in Files, Replace in Files for reference purposes.
Any ideas on how to fix it. Never realized how much I depended on the Find in Files tool until it's been taken away from me!
The issue seems to have fixed itself with the Oct 12 windows update. From looking at the descriptions of the 'Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB3194798)'. Unable to duplicate this issue anymore
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After installing VS 2015 Pro (14.0.25... with Update 3, licence key has been succesfully added), and creating a new project (especially in Javascript or TypeScript with Ionic 2 templates), when I open a file, (modified it or not), I save it and it disappear from Solution Explorer. Just before it disappear, the icon of the file is updated with a warning icon.
However, if I try to create a C++ project, there is no problem !
In a typescript project, after building, ts files appear again at the end of the build.
All my projects are located in c: disk. I've tried with and without using git.
The two extensions I've installed are : Ionic 2 templates and NPM Task runner. I uninstalled them, but the problem is still here.
When I restart VS, I can see again the files. But the problem is still here.
How to fix it ?
I had same issue on Windows 10.
It seems caused by windows update version 1709.
After I recovered my windows version to 1703, the problem was solved.
I can confirm that the 1709 (aka Fall Creator's Update) caused this. I was too low on space to keep the rollback. In another thread someone suggested that visual studio 2017 does not have this problem. I can confirm that is true; but this solution came (for me) with a few different problems. First, I can no longer deploy direct to my android phone. Second, my team-mates still on VS 2015 can no longer open the project at all! If you can move forward to VS 2017, you'll also need to install TypeScript SDK for Visual Studio 2017 before you can compile again.
Trying to install 'Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3' using the .exe installer provided for the visualstudio.com website. I also tried the standard version (without the update).
The black/grey installer opens, the green bar moves along the progress bar once and it crashes. I get a white pop-up window saying 'Microsoft Visual Studio Community with Updates has stopped working'.
I can't seem to find any other situations like mine on Google or StackOverflow.
I have Visual Studio 2017 also installed. Why do I need 2015 too? I'm helping (trying) another student who is using VS2015 and has problems - however, I can't even get it downloaded!
Thanks in advance for any help.
One possible solution is to not worry about 2015 and just help him by using 2017. It's hard to tell for sure if this will resolve your issue, as there is not info on exactly what you are trying to help him with.
If you go this route, I would save out the solution file just after loading it with _vs2017 tacked on the end, or something similar, so that you do not overwrite the info in his solution file. (Edit: The purpose of this is just in case it breaks something for him - it may not be a problem, he may be able to load your 2017 solution file fine). I've moved fluidly between 2017 Community and 2015 Express or Community with some solutions without a problem.
I do realize there are some issues that this may not be a solution for, but it should be an option, especially for those that are more language-based. The main problems with this solution would be if other student is using features or libraries that are deprecated in 2017, or directly struggling with getting VS 2015 features to work.
Go to control Panel -> Programs and features -> turn on windows features ,
Disable .net 3.5
check for windows update,
Then restart the system. Now it will work . 100% working .
Have fun.
I have recently installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on my laptop.
Since the time of installation I have been facing a few issues.
I was not able to even access the New Project option itself.
Some of the times I will be able to access it however, sometimes it does not even allow me to access a single file of my solution in the startup itself it gives me an error.
I have attached a set of five screenshots in this query. There is some blank space after users path, I removed an extra folder name(username) from the path so dont get confused with that.
The detail of all the screenshots are as follows:
1) This is the image I get when I launch the Visual Studio on my laptop.
2) Once I click 'NO' option on the first dialog box I get a new one stating an error with the source code.
3) Once that is done, I move onto Solution Explorer to access the solution and I get this log.
4) When I try to access the tools tab to check for options I get this error message.
5) I had even tried to create a new project and the following error provided in this screenshot would appear.
I am not able to understand where I could have gone wrong or what happened that has corrupted the application to this extent. Is it an installation issue or are there some bugs in this version of Visual Studio, if there are any I would be more than happy to move to previous versions as I was a lot happier with them than this one.
If someone would help on this concern I would be really thankful.
Regards,
Harrisson
First, I went ahead and uninstalled the current version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 from my system. Then, I searched and removed the data from the temporary files related to MS VS 2015 from the following paths:
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio
Once this had been done, I went ahead and installed Visual Studio 2015. After installation, I installed the additional support directories for Visual C++. You can do the same for the platform you wish to work on.
Then I installed updates from the following link:
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2015-update3-vs
Once I started the solution it worked perfectly fine after that with no errors.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 in the community version.
Today I saw that since some days there is an update to Version "Update 1". I was wondering, that my windows or visual stuido did not tell me that there is a update available.
Is this normal in VS, do I always have to keep it up to date by downloading the newest installer?
The reason you didn't see it is that VS has two actions. The first is that we publish a VSUpdate for people to find and download directly. After a period of time, then we publish an atom feed file that VS will download and use to notify you. What you were seeing is that we made VSU1 available on Nov 30th, but we didn't publish the atom feed file until Dec 14th. (And even then, VS only fetches the updated atom feed file once every 24 hours, so it could have been Dec 15th when your VS would have gotten the file that caused the notification).
Keeping up-to-date manually by keeping an eye on tech blogs is faster than waiting for Visual Studio to inform you.
You can find the update on MSDN and download it there, or use the link in this Microsoft Blog post on the release of VS2015 Update 1 to download it.
Update:
This morning my Visual Studio Professional 2015 suddenly drew a yellow box around the Notification Center icon, and upon clicking it told me that '"Visual Studio 2015 Update 1" is available'.
This isn't an important question, but something that has been bothering me for awhile and my google-fu wasn't able to find an answer.
I know that Visual Studio 2013 is version 12 and Visual Studio 2012 is version 11.
Why did Microsoft make the icon for VS2013 solutions have 12 in it (their version number). And VS2012 solutions have 11 in it (again the version number)? VS2010 solutions correctly has 10 in the icon, even though the file format says its version 11.
Now this might just be on my machine(s) because I have multiple versions of VS installed (and editions), but it is just something that makes my head itch.
The numbers correspond to the internal version numbers of various editions of Visual Studio
Visual Studio 6.0 (1998)
Visual Studio .NET (2002) = version 7
Visual Studio .NET 2003 = version 7.1
Visual Studio 2005 = version 8
Visual Studio 2008 = version 9
Visual Studio 2010 = version 10
Visual Studio 2012 = version 11
Visual Studio 2013 = version 12
Visual Studio 2015 = version 14
The number on the icon indicates the version that the project or solution is compatible with.
this info is taken from :
Wikipedia_VS_Version history
Though the question is old, it is a general question on its own.
I was wandering to get a meaningful answer (because I wondered too) and get here only to find an incomplete one. Not satisfied and tried an editing trick on ".sln" file to get the answer.
At first, it is easy to find version numbering on Microsoft's own pages or wikipedia etc. Now the thing is having that number on "the sln file icon". That would be the answer to this question if I had asked it.
Open the sln file with a text editor as its content is mere text. Now the "format version" part on the first line is relevant to the content of the file, so not relevant to answer. The version number on the second line for VS version "# Visual Studio 15" is the thing what gives the file its icon. Changing the number and saving the file is immediate to change the number on the icon. Currently, 10,11,14 and 15 versions are supported it seems. By the way, if you have a line of "VisualStudioVersion", you need to delete it before saving to see the effect.
But be careful: even though you may change the icon, if the content format is not right, VS will complain about the solution. Don't forget to revert the changes back. And also this part gives a clue that you can write your own solution file in a text editor.
As to "why bother!!" of the question, an answer would be to recognize a solution version by look before opening it in the VS. You may have an older version of the file which possibly has incompatibilities in the project files inside, thus you can decide to do some adjustments by hand before opening it in your installed VS version.
PS: I once thought the "10" in the icon is "IO" for "input/output" terminology and wondered what "15" might be as I read it to be "IS". Found this Q/A, not satisfied and tried to improve. If you like, don't forget to give up vote.