I have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Trial installed, which is about to expire. I also have a retail box with Visual Studio 2010 Professional. So I thought changing my trial to the full version would be as simple as entering the key, but no, it tells me that the key is invalid. OK, so I ran the setup from the Professional DVD. It accepted the key and appeared to install just fine (didn't mention anything about it already being installed). At the end it said that setup was completed successfully. When I ran it, however, it was still Ultimate Trial and still expiring in 3 days. Has anyone successfully done this without uninstalling and reinstalling, which would take me half a day?
I finally uninstalled Ultimate and (to my great surprise) I still had a shortcut to "Visual Studio 2010". When I opened it it ran Pro, no problem, as if nothing happened. So basically the following path works just fine:
Install Ultimate
Install Pro (in the same directory!)
Uninstall Ultimate
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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.
As described in some other Q/As like this and this, IntelliTrace is a Visual Studio Ultimate feature only. But for some reason I have Visual Studio Professional 2013 (Version 12.0.30723.00 Update 3) and I have IntelliTrace on it. I don't know how it got there but it shows up in Quick Launch (Ctrl+Q) and is enabled from View -> Toolbars -> IntelliTrace. I told my colleague to use it and he didn't have it on his VS Pro! Do you have any clues why IntelliTrace is available on my VS 2013 Pro installation? I see comments from other people, such as #doglin here that he has the same.
I remember I had VS Ultimate trial installed before I installed VS Pro but can it be from there?
I have the same, it looks like a bug in Visual Studio. Installing Ultimate Trial add IntelliTrace feature to Professional edition.
see UPDATE below before you try this
I can confirm that I added IntelliTrace to VS2012 Pro by doing the following:
VS2012 installed with latest SP plus addins.
Install VS2012 Ultimate 30 day trial (about 30 minutes)
{not sure if I was forced to reboot here - If I was asked I rebooted}
Started VS2012 Ultimate (about 10 minutes)
Opened one of my projects and confirmed that IntelliTrace was working.
Uninstalled VS2012 Ultimate.
Rebooted as suggested by the uninstaller.
Started VS2012. It reverted back to Pro, with Intellitrace still present, add ins working. Only the changes I made to the IDE were lost (window positions, toolbars etc)
I now have IntelliTrace in VS2012 :)
--- UPDATE ---
I tried this and initially it appeared to work. But...
I could not longer create test projects and I had some test projects that failed to load. I tried many things and Googled the hell out of it. In the end, to restore VS 2012 to a working state, I uninstalled VS and reinstalled it.
I did not get IntelliTrace for free :(
I'm struggling on an installation problem with visual studio ultimate 2013: after the download of the web installer I tried to open it but the installer started just for a split second and than it went away, I tried with the iso, same story, tried to repair the .net framework but nothing's changed, I also made an attempt running as administrator but even that didn't work.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks in advance.
I have Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web on my laptop but I want to install the full version of Visual Studio Express 2013 (for both Web and Windows Desktop).
Link to Visual Studio Express (full)
When I run the uninstaller from my Control Panel, nothing happens. It stays on this for hours. I've tried to run the setup.exe (downloaded from Microsoft) again and choose the "Uninstall" function but I couldn't because the same thing happened. I have also tried to run the setup for the full version of Visual Studio but without success. What should I do?
Do you uninstall with admin rights?
Is there a popup window in the background asking for user and password?
There was a problem with my Windows 8.1 and I reinstalled it. Now Visual Studio works perfectly!
I had this and a co-worker recommended that I simply try a second time. It sounded pointless without any changes, but it actually worked the second time. I cannot explain why. Just try it twice.
I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional, i just got new Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010. I'm trying to uninstall the previous Professional version but it isn't working
When i try uninstalling through control panel it just freezes on
generating setup script and after few times Operating becomes not
responding, i waited for an hour but it didn't worked
Then i downloaded the Microsoft Utlity Visual Studio 2010
Uninstall Utility and that also didn't worked for me, it again
stuck in the middle of the progress bar with no reason
Can anyone tell me if he has any idea whats going on and how i can uninstall it
You don't have to uninstall VS2010 Pro to upgrade to Ultimate. Just run the Ultimate installer without doing anything to your existing VS2010 Pro installation and your version will be upgraded.