This is a brand new installation of VS2017 (latest version at the time of writing - 15.1 (26403.0)) on a fresh installation of Windows (Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit) with no extensions or addons included yet. When going to File New Project VS simply sits at 'initializing templates...'. I've waited for twenty minutes before having to force quit the application.
I have tried the command line argument for devenv /installvstemplates which does not help.
Any help is appreciated, let me know if you need any additional info.
Update
I continued troubleshooting the issue. I ran VS as administrator with logging and noticed that these are the final logged entries when attempting to load templates:
Found templates with duplicate template ids at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary_WorkerRole.vstemplate" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary\csClassLibrary.vstemplate"
Found templates with duplicate template ids at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\1033\SharedProject\SharedProject.vstemplate" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows\1033\SharedProject\SharedProject.vstemplate"
Found templates with duplicate template ids at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VisualBasic\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary_WorkerRole.vstemplate" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VisualBasic\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary\classlibrary.vstemplate"
Error! Unable to access file (%USER%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_ea1722b9\ProjectTemplatesCache\cache.bin)
Even though this was a fresh install on a clean system I did attempt an uninstall and reinstall of VS2017 which did not work. I even selected less options in an attempt to mitigate the duplicate template ID warnings.
I ended up having to uninstall VS 2017 again. Uninstall Windows 10 SDK (of which I had two versions for some reason). Run VS 2017 installer as administrator.
This time it installed and completed with warnings, the warning was that it did not install the .Net Core SDK because it says I already have a version, though I don't see it. It's possible I'll have to deal with this later as there may be a hung registry key.
Still, I loaded up VS 2017 and the templates initialized immediately. So this problem is resolved.
I am trying to install Visual Studio Professional 2017 RC on Windows 10 but the installer reports:
A product matching the following parameters cannot be found:
channelId: VisualStudio.15.Release
productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Professional
Is this fixable?
I had the same issue and the following has helped me. A clean-up and removal of vs and installation folder was not enough in my case.
Here are the steps I've taken:
uninstalled Visual Studio (and other Visual Studio installations)
run C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\InstallCleanup.exe -full"
removed all the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio" folders
removed "C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\ folder
restarted system
In the end I think removing of Program Data location did the final trick. I had to run a repair after the successful installation to make VS Extensions work.
I previously installed VS 15 Release and removed it. I had the same issue and fixed it by removing installer folder from here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\ Installer
Please follow the cleanup steps and retry your VS install
See if you have this file on your machine: "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe"
If so, please launch it from an admin command prompt with a -full param:
InstallCleanup.exe -full
If not, please manually delete the "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer” folder
Relaunch the newly downloaded vs_enterprise.exe (or vs_professional.exe or vs_community.exe…)
Allow the first step to install the installer
Once the installer comes up and you can see workload choices (.net desktop and the like), close it
Go launch the same InstallCleanup.exe to clean up old build of VS
Then relaunch vs_enterprise.exe and install VS.
The problem that I had was because I had a Visual Studio 2017 layout and I wanted to make a Visual Studio 2019 layout in the same directory.
If you are creating a new offline installation layout on top of an old offline installation layout, you need to delete every file inside the layout folder (And only the layout folder not sub-directories).
This way the new (channel) information will be replaced and installation goes without errors.
When it finished installing it worked OK, then I closed it, and when I re-opened , it wanted me to Modify, Repair or Uninstall (couldn't bypass it). I chose Repair, but when I close and re-open it again, it does the same and I can't seem to launch Visual Studio. The only way to use the program is through the solution I found here ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv (open devenv) and directly open devenv application it won't give you any error about modify repair uninstall) I should mention that I have 2 Microsoft visual studio files 12.0 and 14.0
However, is there a faster way to open it? when I click on the icon in desktop it does not work.
Thanks
I think your shortcut is corrupted.
The standard Target location of Visual studio is: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\ "
with target devenv.exe.
Please check the shortcut target.
this is the correct one:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
(don't forget to include the quotation marks)
I installed the CTP of the multi-device-hybrid apps and the new app templates didn't show up in VS. The add-in also didn't show up in the Extensions & Updates list in VS. Trying to Uninstall it claimed to work instantly, but didn't uninstall anything.
This is an odd situation and should generally not occur. It seems the VSIX file got copied over but was not installed correctly.
Here's the work around (run using an administrative command prompt):
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common \IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe" /admin /uninstall:MultiDeviceHybridApps..db151788-9b27-49db-a5e2-d25a2653eb83
This removed the broken entries for the VSIX from the previous failed attempt to install. Following this, issue another command:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe" "%localappdata\Microsoft\MultiDeviceHybridApps\Microsoft.VisualStudio.MultiDeviceHybridApps.vsix" /admin
At this point, the VSIX should be installed successfully and the templates will become available in Visual Studio.
How do you remove the following noise templates that don't even work?
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
To save a bit of time for 2010 users, the folder has moved:
...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates
For Visual Studio 2013, I found my template cache here:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache
Deleting them off of disk should do the trick. Where they exist will depend a bit on where you installed them. If you installed them for all users they will be at
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual studio 9.0\Common7\Ide\ProjectTemplatesCache
For a single user they will be at
%USERPROFILE%\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
EDIT
If InstallVSTemplates fails, it is likely one of the following. The one I can't help with is some program randomly dumping files inside of the ProjectTemplatesCache directory.
The other more likely cause is there is a bad template in the ProjectTemplates directory. InstallVSTemplates really just goes through this directory, and unzips all of the files into the ProjectTemplatesCache directory. You will have to search through this directory and find the .zip file which contains the junk files being added to your project Once you find the file, delete it, delete ProjectTemplatesCache, and then re-run InstallVSTemplates.
After manually searching for some of the custom profile templates(.vstemplate),I found them at the following location:
%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions
It appears VS2010 installs some of the templates as extesions or the authors made it that way.I hope this helps someone.
May need to run "devenv /setup" at the run command to refresh the VS2010 after you delete the templates.
For me it was a matter of removing it from here using VS2017:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_45552a03\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete the bad/unwanted project folders from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates
Clear cache
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache
Delete stuff from (perhaps not necessary)
C:\Users[Your User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
and finally open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator and run
devenv /installvstemplates
For me the issue got resolved when I deleted the cache.bin file from ItemTemplatesCache folder. Full path of this folder is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
Also make sure you delete the template files from below locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
C:\Users\Default\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
C:\Users[NT-USERNAME]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
For Visual Studio 2019:
Extensions > Manage extensions > Installed > Uninstall
Worke for VS 2012 and 2015 :
In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.
worke in VS 2019 :
1- In VS2019, custom templates can be removed by deleting the template folder from %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{VSVersion}\ProjectTemplatesCache. Look for a {VSVersion} that begins with "16".
https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6SQ5.png
2- Delete What You Want From Templates Folder in {C:\Users\USERName\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates}
Notes :
{ProjectTemplatesCache} Or {ItemTemplatesCache}
https://i.stack.imgur.com/9BM9p.png
For Visual Studio Express 2010 you should delete all folders under
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VCSExpress\10.0\Extensions
For Visual Studio 2013 Community, you have to delete {program folder}\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\cache.bin after deleting all the unwanted files as described above. Afterwards VS will rebuild the templates listing in the New Project... dialog.
You could also try this:
dotnet new --uninstall <PATH|NUGET_ID>
It works for me in VS 2019 and VS 2022 to uninstall the Avalonia templates.
Description
The dotnet new --uninstall command uninstalls a template package at the PATH or NUGET_ID provided. When the <PATH|NUGET_ID> value isn't specified, all currently installed template packages and their associated templates are displayed. When specifying NUGET_ID, don't include the version number.
Examples
Uninstall the Avalonia templates
dotnet new --uninstall Avalonia.Templates
From MicrosoftDocs
If the template was installed by double clicking a VSIX file, it is considered an extension and can be uninstalled using the technique described by Hamid Behnam above. Otherwise, it can be deleted from one of the template directories mentioned above.
It looks like in each case we use different recipe. Unfortunately, commands line and VS menu command listed in this thread did not work in my case, which is MS VS 2019 Community Edition on Win7 x64:
First, close VS, remove unwanted *.zip files from all following folders, as well as hidden cache.bin file from the last \ProjectTemplatesCache folder (it will be restored at VS startup), then restart VS. Here are those 3 folders:
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\My Exported Templates
{Documents}\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates
{User}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio{Number}\ProjectTemplatesCache