I've been trying to install Visual Studio 2017 Community edition for about a week, but I keep getting the following errors.
Message Id: 1310 Message Details: Error writing to file:
Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.dll.
Message Id: 1310 Message Details: Error writing to file:
Microsoft.VisualStudio.PerformanceTools.Detours.dll.
I'm trying to install the desktop applications workload, or whatever it's called.
I've searched around on the internet, and tried a few things. Including
- Installing all pending windows updates.
- Uninstalling the VS installer, running a clean up utility, and rebooting.
- Trying to manually run the msi that is failing (they still fail).
- Uninstalling every SQL server thing on the machine.
I haven't been able to find anything on the internet, that solved my problem. Any help would be appreciated.
I think what might have happened is you might have some older versions of DLLs in place that you don't have permission to overwrite. Please uninstall VS 2017 again, then manually delete C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0 and/or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0 then try the installation again.
This is assuming you don't need any pre-existing stuff in those directories.
The detours dll for example would be in something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies
It can be folder permissions related. Do you have permission to write to the directories you need? Try running the installer "as administrator", and make sure the user you are installing as will have the permissions to write to that folder and the program files folders. Maybe try installing in another directory.
Download the installer fresh again, it could be corrupted.
Make sure you did not run out of disk space.
Since there is a SQL Server DLL conflicting, maybe try uninstalling SQL server, clearing out directories manually that contain that DLL, then reinstall.
One of these things should help but it's hard for me to be sure without access to the environment. Good luck! I hope this helps.
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I'm getting a common error on the issue that I'm having but nothing has worked:
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31326\include\yvals.h(12,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'crtdbg.h': No such file or directory
I've been told to download the C++ dev kit again, the Windows SDK again, Reset my PC after download and manually change the path inside the file that can't find it.
As it turns out the file exists (and the Windows SDK too, I assume), Visual studio is just looking for it in the wrong spot, So I figure this is a setup issue. It exists in this location C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.19041.0\ucrt. You could say why not just manually link to it? I have but then another file can't be found, so I change that and then another one can't be found and so on. I'd appreciate the help as this is the reason I get scared to use Visual Studio and go back running to Code, thank you!
Does this issue also occur if I create an empty C++ project and build it? If it works fine, this issue is more relevant to your current project.
Please check the target platform version of your project. Right click the project name and select ‘Properties’—‘Configuration Properties’—‘General’— ‘Windows SDK Version’ like the following, and select the Windows 10 SDK to have a try.
You could also refer to the method in this issue.
(PS:You need to make sure that the SDK you install is consistent with the operating system, for example if you use Win 11 then you should install the Windows 11 SDK.)
Wanted to add this question to the pool in case someone has the same problem
I was unable to update Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 7 and got the following error:
Unable to install the files to target location. Error: The folder
'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer' or a file
within it is locked by another program. Close any applications that
might be using it and try again.
The initial solution I found was to reinstall Visual Studio but felt that it might be unnecessary. The solution I found was to close down visual studio, go to "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer", rename the folder "Installer" to something else then run vs_installer.exe from the renamed folder.
Hope that help someone.
I just recently encountered the same error while trying to update the Visual Studio 2017 installer on Windows 10. In my case, the c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer directory was locked because of virus/malware scanning software running in the background. After stopping that, the installation of the VS 2017 installer had no more problems.
What initially misled me about the source of the problem was that the process which had a lock on the files in that directory was the special System process in Process Explorer, so I was initially going down the wrong rabbit hole.
If you have malwarebytes then you can add to the allow list C:\Program Files(x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio and it will work.
I got it working by downloading the installer separately, rebooting, and running the installer directly.
VS Installer Downloads
I encountered this when trying to update VS2019. I could not rename the Installer folder. Rebooting didn't help. I tried uninstalling everything related to Visual Studio via Control Panel, but the uninstall failed. It removed everything except a subfolder containing VSIXAutoUpdate.exe and some dlls. The installer still would not run.
This final step allowed me to delete the Installer folder and do a fresh install of Visual Studio.
Open Task Manager > Processes Tab
End Process "VSIXAutoUpdate"
Delete folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer"
TL;DR
Stop the Task Scheduler service and ensure no open handles for the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer dir
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I just had the same problem, and even rebooting didn't help. So, I dug in!
Process Hacker revealed there was a lock on the following file by the System process:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service\VSIXConfigurationUpdater.exe.
If I used Process Hacker to close the handle, it just immediately reopened again :/
I thought to check Task Scheduler (since it runs as SYSTEM in svchost), and sure enough there were tasks in there that run VSIXConfigurationUpdater.exe, even though they weren't actually running at that time.
So I stopped the Task Scheduler service, then used Process Hacker to close the handle on VSIXConfigurationUpdater.exe - and this time it didn't return! After ensuring there were no open handles on anything inC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer, the Visual Studio installer was able to update.
I found the culprit for me was Malwarebytes disabled this and all worked well. Hope this helps somebody.
I tried to run through the steps #Janspeed specified, but there were a couple of language folders in the resources directory that were corrupted/locked, so just renaming wouldn't work. I managed to copy most of the file/dir structure (minus the corrupted ones) to a new directory but had to run a chkdsk /f on a restart before I could get those folders freed up and deleted. Once I had this worked out, #Janspeed's steps worked fine, including just deleting the new directory that I had copied everything into.
I ran into this issue today, turns out it was MalwareBytes Endpoint Protection that was blocking the update which is rather annoying.
Luckily I'm the admin and developer so I was able to drop my laptop from the antivirus to enable the update and then re-add it but in a larger corporate environment with red tape this isn't great at all.
I had faced the same issue while updating Visual Studio 2017 and 2019. I tried to open the Visual Studio Installer directly as admin and then it worked as expecred.
Update kept failing when using the "Check for Updates" menu item in the VS2019 IDE. When I ran the Visual Studio Installer from the Windows Start bar it immediately prompted to download the latest version of the installer. Once that was done it then offered to update VS2019.
I've been having this problem for about a month, and I am completely stuck.
Under the "New Project" window I don't see the windows 10 universal templates, but have the sdk and tools installed.
All pictures are in this folder on dropbox.
New Project Window: Capture.png (on dropbox)
What I tried:
.net 3.5 enable/disable under "programs and features"/"Turn Windows features on or off"
full uninstall/reinstall with VisualStudioUninstaller
full uninstall/reinstall with Revo Uninstaller
iso intaller
running "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE>devenv /installvstemplates" command with admin privileges
repairing with original installer
modifying with original installer
The strange thing is that in the installer (when modifying) the Universal Windows App Development checkbox is checked. (Capture1.png ... Capture5.png)
I have, however, found out that the folders at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VC\Windows Root\Windows UAP\1033" is completely empty... Isn't that supposed to be the template folder for the projects? (Capture6.png)
I would be grateful if you could give me some advice fixing this issue.
Okay, so for anyone having this problem:
Check if the "Windows Installer" service is running under Task Manager/Services.
If not right click and select Start service.
After that run the installer for Visual Studio and select repair.
After the repairing finishes, (reboot if you want, it wasn't required for me) all the templates are installed.
(And yes, if you still have this problem, write to microsoft, they are helpful in these kinds of questions)
I'm trying to compile a visual studio C++ project and I can't get anywhere because of the compiler reporting "Cannot open include file: 'excpt.h': No such file or directory". The problem has been reported numerous times on the Internet but I can't find any help regarding my particular situation. The problem is not that the include path of the project are not correctly setup, the problem is that this include file (and probably a bunch of other files) are just missing from my computer. There is no such file on my hard drive. So I tried installing Windows SDK 7.1. The file is not inside the installed SDK (although it should be). I tried repairing the install, uninstall it, reinstall it... all numerous time. I also try to install, repair, uninstall, reinstall Visual Studio 2010 professional numerous time, with and without the Windows SDK installed. I even tried uninstalling the professional version to install the express VC++... nothing seems to work, no 'excpt.h' never get installed on my computer. I am clueless... someone has a hint of a solution? I'm on Windows 7.
As supplementary information, note that 'excpt.h' is included in by "windows.h". Also, the "excpt.h" file is normally installed with the Windows SDK under a path like "c:\program files (x86)\microsoft sdks\windows\v7.1\include\" and with Visual Studio under a path like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\".
EDIT: If it might help, I might add that the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include related my Visual Studio install has only two files... which is certainly not normal!!! However, I can't find any ways to get the installer to install all the .h files that should appear in this repertory.
See if you have it at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include\excpt.h Check to be sure that the system include-paths are correct in Visual Studio. If all else fails, uninstall everything, all SDK's, etc., and re-install Visual C++.
Third party search programs do a better job than the Windows one for finding things. Try Agent Ransack. It's free.
For those who have the same problem, here is the solution I found after about 10h of install/uninstall/cleaning cycles... I've uninstalled completely visual studio using this. After that, using the control panel, I've uninstalled the Windows SDK and everything that can be associated with it or with visual studio (e.g. .NET framework). Then, I've removed all the left overs by manually deleting the visual studio and the Windows SDK folders located in C:/Program files. Finally, I deleted all the entries related to the Windows SDK or to Visual Studio in the registry (they are located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft). Then, I reinstalled Visual Studio... and it was finally working correctly. I should add that I restarted and cleaned the registry using CCleaner after any install or uninstall step.
I had this problem with a project that had been updated to VS2017 from VS2015.
This was a header included via windows.h. I knew this header should have no problems as I had other projects created directly in VS2017 that used windows.h.
Another symptom was that the intellisense was highlighting includes of standard headers (e.g string, vector etc), although these were not generating compile errors.
The fix for me was similar to VS 2010 Cannot open source file “string”.
Initially, I retargeted the project, hoping this would help (right-click the project, select retarget projects), but this did not in itself cure the problem.
I then took a working project and copied the include directories from project properties->Configuration Properties->VC++ Directories and used these to replace the same property for my broken project. This fixed the problem.
Initially, the value for this property was
$(VCInstallDir)include;$(VCInstallDir)atlmfc\include;$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath);
The replacement value was
$(VC_IncludePath);$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath);
I had the same problem, and tried the answer given by OP, but it did not work. However, copying the contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC (specifically bin, lib, and include) from a machine that did work to this machine worked.
It seems the Visual Studio 2012 installer is buggy when it comes to installing into a different drive letter than C:. I have installed the VS2012 into the D: drive and got the same error. I found that for some unknown reason the installer put some of the files into the correct location at:
D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
but the remaining files were at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0
so I have moved the files from the C: into the D: location and it fixed the problem.
Some situation cause such problem. If you have uninstalled vs2010. you lost platform C++ binaries for .net framework 4 forever. You have to delete all of VS 2010 2012 2013, clean system up and its accompany components and reinstall them from scratch.
Or you can download this package. Include them in your project that may solve your problem properly.
one simeple way,just copy vc directory(C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC) from other computer
Fixing your Visual Studio installation is a good idea, but you don't necessarily need to re-install the same old version of VS. I uninstalled VS 2015, then modified my VS 2017 installation to add the VC++ v140 build tools, and now my project builds.
I'm trying to start a performance profiling session in Visual Studio 2012 RTM on Windows 8 PRO 64-bit for a console program (ANALYZE / Start Performance Analysis).
I get a popup message informing me
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.PerformanceTools.CounterInfo.dll' or one of its dependencies. The Specified module could not be found.
Apparently this can happen under VS2010 after KB2645410 is installed. I carefully followed the procedure given for this issue with the same error message:
Visual Studio 2010 SP1, KB2645410 and Add-Ins
However, that does not resolve the issue.
I have tried running VS2012 as Administrator as well.
How can I get the profiler working?
UPDATE
I can actually attach to a running instance of the project from the command line using the steps here:
Walkthrough: Command-Line Profiling Using Sampling
However, Visual Studio does not open the resulting .vspx file (it just does nothing after I open it with File / Open File).
UPDATE 2
Fuslogvw reports two binding errors when I attempt to start the profiler:
VS 2012 Profiler Binding Errors - Pastebin
Adding the following to the system path resolved the issue for me permanently.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools
Some other answers may be appropriate to other situations.
Note that you probably will need to run Visual Studio as Administrator for profiling to work correctly.
I also struggled with that issue.
I found a working solution for me:
I opende the XXX.sln file using notepad.
There i found several parts in the Project and Global Section looking something like this:
ProjectSection(SolutionItems) = preProject
Performance1.psess = Performance1.psess
EndProjectSection
I removed all of them and that made my Analyzer work again.
I delete the .suo file and everythings works correctly now.
The same question exists here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a6487155-980c-4bc8-82de-2fe588fdf37f/windows-update-kb2645410-and-performance-tools-error
The following are suggested workarounds:
Remove windows update KB2645410
Only run one instance of Visual Studio
If you are the administrator on your development PC you can add the permission to Everyone to read and execute all the content in the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools" and subfolders/files.
"I backed everything up and did a complete repair of Visual Studio using the original disk from Microsoft. That allowed the computer to shut down normally. Then I tried the patch again. It hung again, but after a few reboots we got a message about deleting corrupt files and finally everything seems OK."
My issue was resolved when I realized that my user access control was set too high. Once that was turned off, I rebooted and it all worked great.
Once I uninstalled re-sharper my issue was resolved.