I merged my partitioned HDD and had to move the Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate installation folder manually between the partitions, along with some other applications. Something went wrong when moving Visual Studio and now I can no longer run it.
Whenever I try to open Visual studio this pops up:
Trying to uninstall gives me this message:
A repair results in this:
I have also tried to just remove the folder from Program Files to try and get a clean install but there wasn't any install button in the setup. (only repair/modify/uninstall)
Is there a way to manually tell Visual studio that these files are just moved or is it possible to remove Visual studio completely and run a new setup?
Answering my own question for future readers.
I fixed it by splitting the disk again and moving the folder to it's original directory. That way I could uninstall Visual Studio from "D:/" and reinstall it on "C:/".
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Something is broken on my machine and Visual Studio 2019 will not update or install. [this article][1] recommends running the below exe to clean your system of all Visual Studio installations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe
However, it does not exist. In this case, that article says to run the VS installer, get to the Workflows tab, and then close the installer to make the exe appear, but it doesn't.
I am using 2019 Community Edition. Anyone know where I can get this exe?
As is the case many times, it's only until after I ask a question that I try something I hadn't thought of, and that was to search the entire Microsoft Visual Studio folder and I found it here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\InstallCleanup.exe
I ran it and was able to successfully install 2019.
Background: I tried updating 2019 one day when the update failed and I was no longer able to build any of my applications. Updates and full reinstalls would fail saying that it could not access one of the package files. I had to fall back to 2017 and had been using it since this occurred back in February. I decided I wanted 2019, so I went the full uninstall route, but could never find the above-mentioned exe until now. I hope this helps all the others who have been having this issue.
This all occurred during a 2019 update one d
Others have experienced this as well, but I found no solutions. I will probably just mark this as answer if VS installs properly.
During update Visual Studio 2019 to latest version (16.9), setup failed. Stupidly I closed installer window without read the error.
When I retryed the update, the Installer crashes few seconds after start.
I have uninstalled wholly Visual Studio, but Installer still crash.
I think something is left dirty after first update fail, I tried to search in log files recoverd by collect.exe tools, but I can't found usefull information in that bilions of messages.
Reinstalling Windows must be the last choice, there is a way to take crash error for undertand the problem and search for a solution?
EDIT
Also InstallCleanup.exe don't solve the problem
Visual Studio Installer version 2.9.3349 has problems with culture "it-IT". If that's your case (as it is mine), there is a workaround here:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Visual-Studio-Installer-crashes-after-up/1356122
The workaround is to force a working locale: ./vs_installer.exe --locale en-US
If you think your install and/or installer is corrupted, run the installation cleaner tool available at the URL below and then re-download the latest installer, from which you can get 16.9.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/remove-visual-studio?view=vs-2019
Additionally there is a step you can try in Troubleshooting Installation Issues, specifically Step 4 (The advice above the break is actually Step 6 in this process)
Step 4 - Delete the Visual Studio Installer directory to fix upgrade problems
The Visual Studio Installer bootstrapper is a minimal light-weight executable that installs the rest of the Visual Studio Installer. Deleting Visual Studio Installer files and then rerunning the bootstrapper might solve some update failures.
Note
Performing the following actions reinstalls the Visual Studio Installer files and resets the installation metadata.
Close the Visual Studio Installer.
Delete the Visual Studio Installer directory. Typically, the directory is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer.
Run the Visual Studio Installer bootstrapper. You might find the bootstrapper in your Downloads folder with a file name that follows a vs_[Visual Studio edition]__*.exe pattern. If you don't find that application, you can download the bootstrapper by going to the Visual Studio downloads page and clicking Download for your edition of Visual Studio. Then, run the executable to reset your installation metadata.
Try to install or update Visual Studio again. If the Installer continues to fail, go to the next step.
You have to download the installer again for the offline installation eg.vs_enterprise.exe then run vs_enterprise.exe --layout "folder where you have the offline installation". The new installer needs to download a different new configuration file vs_installer.version.json
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/create-an-offline-installation-of-visual-studio?view=vs-2019
When i try open Visual Studio, I immediately receive an error message. The message only tell me to open a xml file to receive more informations.
The directory of the xml file is C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_ae456ee1\ActivityLog.xml
I already tried some possible solutions, like delete the privateregistry.bin file, on this directory: C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_ae456ee1. But when I delete this file and try open Visual Studio, instead of receive the error immediately, the logo of Visual Studio appears, then the error message appears and the privateregistry.bin file is re-created.
This problem first happened in the Visual Studio 2017 Community. I reinstalled this version and downloaded Visual Studio Professional, but the error continues.
Repair Visual Studio 2017
Sometimes your Visual Studio installation becomes damaged or corrupted. A repair can fix this.
Find the Visual Studio Installer on your computer.
For example, on a computer running Windows 10 Anniversary Update or later, select Start,
and then scroll to the letter V, where it's listed as Visual Studio Installer.
Note
On some computers, the Visual Studio Installer might be listed under
the letter "M" as the Microsoft 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 or tap to start the installer, then select More, and then select Repair.
My exact issue was for an Unreal Engine 4 solution. The problem was the the intermediate folder was moved, and a new one re-generated. Instead of having to re-generate project files (from the .uproject), I simply deleted the auto-generated intermediate folder and replaced with the moved/old version (which included the build files from an initial project generation from the .uproject).
It is at least better to try a solution other than repairing the install, as that will delete external plugins and preferences...
During visual studio startup I get lots of annoying dialogs about extensions package loading errors.
All the extensions that fail to load are those I uninstalled.
I checked all the places mentioned in this article (Bootstrapping of VS packages and VSIX extensions in VS2010) and none of the extensions I get error for is there.
Is there somewhere else I can check?
I would "just" like to see where visual studio finds these references and kindly delete them all :)
I found this folder in the windows registry:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3990449039-760197492-1239349315-1121\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\Packages
It contains all the reference to extensions visual studio tries to load (mostly pointing to HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3990449039-760197492-1239349315-1121\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\InstalledProducts subfolders).
I just renamed the folder of the extensions I did remove and I do not see load errors anymore.
I'm sure this could cause some side effects so is anyone aware of a better way to avoid visual studio trying to load uninstalled extensions?
This is the correct answer:
Close Visual Studio.
Backup, and then delete Visual Studio's AppData folder. For example:
Visual Studio 2010:
%AppData%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
Visual Studio 2012:
%AppData%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0
Visual Studio 2013:
%AppData%\..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0
Restart Visual Studio and enjoy.
I had a problem like this after upgrading SmartBear AQTime where I removed IDE integration (which doesn't work well anyway, may as well run standalone). VS2010 complained no startup about packages which didn't load correctly.
I actually deleted the contents of
AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
and this fixed things entirely.
I encount this problem after removing devexpress from my computer,and I cleaned the registries yesterday，then I delete the devenv.CTM file in
%AppData%..\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\1033 file and restart my VS, it works!
I installed Visual Studio 2008 package FULL option. It worked with out any problem. I installed Vstudio 2008 and MSDN in separate folder in the D drive. 2 days later in order to remove my projects i uninstalled every thing and also i deleted visual studio 2008, visual studio 2005 folders from C:\Documents and Settings\IRCTC\My Documents. (I believe these 2 folders were automatically created when we install visual studio) also I cleared %path% and path (c/windows/path). Again I installed VISUAL STUDIO 2008 but now I can't able to create window application (other web, vb also), what is the solution for this ...
ERROR that shown is
c:/documents and settings/IRCTC/local settings/temp/g1zzsdl.bak/temp/windowsFormsApplication.csproj cannot be opened because project type (.csproj) is not supported by this version of visual studio.......
Whether any system file corrupted (windows temp or .net folber in windows).....
No other installation problem found in my system.....
please help.....
What are the files/folders required for the installation......
When you get that error is usually because:
You are trying to open a project created with a previous version of Visual Studio (not your case)
There was a bit of a screw-up during the installation (sounds like your case)
I'd uninstall the thing and reinstall completely first thing.
If it still doesn't work, it could be related to VS templates and you might wanna try and run from Visual Studio 2008 command prompt:
devenv /InstallVSTemplates
If it still doesn't work, open Visual Studio, in the menu, Open Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->General. At this point you will notice the path of Project Templates is set to "C:\Documents and Settings[yourUserName]\My Documents\Visual Studio 9\Templates\ProjectTemplates" or something very similar to that. In order to fix it you gotta set that path to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\IDE\Project Templates or the same path according to wherever you installed Visual Studio
I don't think is related to VS project Templates though - see this link
Try and see what happens!
Why didn't you use visual studio's uninstall function available from the control panel|add/remove programs?
I would uninstall the latest installation as described above, and try again.