I am trying to uninstall the update 4. The 'visual studio' window appears and suddenly stops working. how can I uninstall it? i have tried revo uninstaller but it didn't work. the update doesn't appear in the programs and features list anymore because revo "uninstalled" it.
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New computer build, clean install of Win 10, installed VS2017. After struggling with VS2017 issues for a few weeks I decided to go back to VS2015 and wait for an update. I uninstalled 2017 without problems, but when I try to install 2015 I get a message that Roslyn Language Services can't be installed because there's already a version installed and to uninstall RLS using Add/Remove Programs in the control panel. No such thing as Roslyn in the Apps list.
Is there another way to uninstall RLS 2017 so I can finish installing VS2015?
I got a similar error, and couldn't Repair 2015. I was able to resolve it when uninstalling an entry in "Programs and Features" titled similar to "Visual Studio for Applications 2015 Languages". I thought this was spoken/written languages, but it related to programming languages (the Roslyn service shows up in the Visual Studio dialog after clicking uninstall on that entry).
I've been testing our extension in VS2017 RC and it installs perfectly but when I try to uninstall it I find that it is impossible.
It says that the extension will be uninstalled when all Visual Studio windows are closed but this does not work. When I try the same extension in other versions of Visual Studio such as 2013, there is a "Restart Now" button that appears after invoking the uninstall.
Is this a known issue or is there something wrong with my extension?
This behavior has changed with Visual Studio 2017. Close all instances of Visual Studio and the vsix installer should pop-up and ask you to modify the current installation for your extension and perform the uninstall.
A few changes to your extension are required:
http://www.visualstudioextensibility.com/2016/11/16/visual-studio-2017-rc-announced-extensions-need-some-changes/
I'm trying to uninstall Visual Studio Professional 2012 (I have 2015 now) on Windows 10, but it's stuck on "Applying: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Shell (Minimum)." The second loading bar is almost full and won't go higher. I left my laptop on overnight so it could uninstall yet it's still here.
To uninstall the VS 2012, you can check this: How to uninstall Visual Studio 2012 and it describes the manual removal and forcibly uninstall methods. You can first uninstall the main product like VS 2012 professional, then uninstall the other supporting products that may be installed.
Make sure you uninstall the VS 2012 professional by the administrator account and if the manual removal failed, you can try to forcibly uninstall through the command: vs_professional.exe /uninstall /force. It can forcibly remove almost all components and for the detail information, you can have a look at this blog.
If the uninstall still failed, you can use http://aka.ms/vscollect to gather the installation logs. After using it, you will find vslogs.zip under %temp% folder then upload the file to https://onedrive.live.com/ and share the link here.
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 have visual studio 2013 ultimate installed and recently uninstalled visual studio 2015 community, to upgrade to enterprise 2015.
I had trouble uninstalling 2015, but eventually running the setup and choosing for repair/uninstall did the job. This didn't work for 2013 so I haven't been able to uninstall 2013 yet.
Anyhow, when I try to install enterprise I just get the splash screen for a few seconds, and then it disappears and nothing happens. Which was also the case when I tried to uninstall either visual studio versions earlier.
Why is visual studio such a pain to install/uninstall and how do I solve it?
Thanks!
I got this error I could see the splash screen then it dissapeared and the executable just continued running in the background but no GUI was shown.
A full uinstall and reinstall did not solve the issue.
I solved it by completely removing all the registry settings for Visual Studio 2015 that can be found under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio
Remove all subdirectories with 14 in them:
Now when restarting you get to log into your MSDN account and the GUI starts working after that.