I struggle to uninstall VS 2010. I downloaded and used first trial version for VS professionnal 2010. I uninstalled it (partially) after trial, but as I could not install and use new trial version for same product, I successfully installed VS express C++ 2010. Now trial period for this product is over as well, and I unintalled it. Now I am stuck: I can download neither VS 2010 nor VS Express 2010. How to entirely remove VS from computer (Windows 7). Thanks and regards.
I think the problem here is not so much removing it, but a miss-understanding of how the express versions work.
VC++ 2010 Express is 100% free, you do however, need to register it (it'll only allow 30 days of unregistered use), but this is free as well. if you are a student, you may consider getting the professional or ultimate versions for free off of Dreamspark or the MS Academic Alliance.
If you do want totally remove it, you can remove all the components from the windows programs manager, however, removing the trail period checks would result in circumvention of the EULA (ie: you'd be breaking the law).
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I have the problem that I cannot update or install Visual Studio anymore on my system.
Today I saw that a newer Visual Studio 2017 version was released and I tried to start the VS installer for the update process. The start for the installer was just spinning but nothing happened. After that I tried to start the installer separately from VS but it didn't work either.
So I continued to make an even bigger mistake by assuming my installed version is bad and to completely reinstall Visual Studio by uninstalling and then trying to start the normal installation process.
Unfortunately it didn't work.
After downloading the webinstaller, it downloads the installer packages it needs but the vs_installer.exe itself will never run successfully afterwards (also if started manually).
There is no error shown directly. It just does not start. The EventViewer is also not showing any errors I would say have a connection to the problem.
Any ideas? Thanks!
After a bit of communication with the Visual Studio team they pointed me to the only thing they know could cause this issue.
Some time ago I added an environment variable to my system named NODE_OPTIONS. It was necessary because the builds of our Angular applications are so big that we had to adjust the available memory size.
Removing the environment variable enabled me to start vs_installer.exe and to reinstall Visual Studio again.
It's a bit obscure and not many people will have this problem. But I hope Microsoft will fix it anyway.
P.S. The silent crash is caused by the usage of Electron for the Visual Studio installer. The person from Microsoft, who helped me to workaround the problem, told me that they are working on a fix.
Issue: Download Visual Studio Community 2017
And the login dialog says, "Prerelease software. This license has expired" even though I'm logged in with a valid account. My laptop and another PC are both running the same version linked to the same account. They work fine.
I've tried everything outlined here (#answer-47683843):
Visual Studio 2015 - Prerelease software. This license has expired
I fixed it by resetting my Windows 10 OS (https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/reset-windows-10-pc), which is kind of annoying - but it worked!
Here's my visual studio support ticket in case they ever decide to fix the issue without such an extreme approach.
Coming from a guy that spent hours reinstalling VS over and over and OVER again... And trying to come up with all kinds of workarounds with VMs and deleting registry keys, etc...
This was a way better sure-fire, fairly quick, fix compared to all that!
I've never reset my Windows 10 before this, and so far it's really not too intrusive. All my data is still on the machine, you can choose JUST to clean out your apps, and Windows settings (which I assume includes your registry).
So I'll be reinstalling a bunch of stuff... but again... it was way worth it, if you need Visual Studio 2017 working now
Hope this helps someone else out there!
I recently started programming in C++ and required a specific library (Ws2_32.lib) that comes with visual studio. I was reluctant to download visual studio for something so simple but couldn't find an alternative. The problem is that it has been 43 hours and visual studio community 2015 has still not finished installing. I have searched for this problem and common solutions and have crossed a few off the list:
1. It isn't to do with network connection (the network has been connected the whole time and the acquiring bar is full, it is stuck on the applying stage)
2. It isn't just a long install (average install for visual studio is an hour)
Is there a way to fix this and/or get Ws2_32.lib seperately?
EDIT: The install is not hung, it is still installing just incredibly slowly.
If you don't actually want the VS IDE, you should simply download the MinGW C++ compiler from somewhere like http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net which includes import libraries for all of the Win32 APIs. Installing takes about 5 minutes.
The Windows SDK is available as a separate download (see Windows 10 SDK). You don't need Visual Studio to get the Windows Sockets 2 libraries.
If you do want to use Visual Studio for Windows programming (an this is highly recommended), make sure to only install those features, that you are actually planning to use. Even though 43 hours is longer than anything I have heard reports from, installing Visual Studio can take considerably longer than setting up an entire OS.
I am learning about GPU Programming using CUDA and I just realized that VS Express does not support plugins. I have installed VS 2013 Community and I was wondering if it is safe to uninstall VS 2013 Express after I have installed community and CUDA. Will doing such a thing 'break' anything ? I am only decent with programming so I have no idea about paths and environment variables and what not. Will my old projects still work if I launch them with VS community ?
I am aware of this thread Is it safe to uninstall VS Express after installing VS Ultimate? but was wondering if uninstalling will affect any paths or so.
In these cases it's safest to repair the edition you want to keep after a deinstallation. While the Visual Studio installation itself will probably survive, other components, such as Windows SDKs and Targeting packs may get damaged.
First uninstall the Express edition(s) and then go to Programs and Features to repair the Community Edition.
We recently moved over to Visual Studio 2010 from 2005 and the environment have turned out to be highly unstable.
I experience 10-15 crashes per day at random locations , msenv.dll and vcpkg.dll to mention a few. It can be while selecting text or compiling, not found any pattern.
The plugin we got is VisualX Assist but I doubt that there is a problem with that.
Anyone here at Stackoverflow that experience this and/or know if there is any updates to apply to a default installed VS2010 ?
My Visual Studio 2010, without any plugins, was similarly unstable when I first installed it. I got updates from Microsoft Update, and it rarely crashes now. I never bothered figuring out exactly which update was key. It might have been a driver update, or an OS update, or a .NET update.
I'm running VS2010 10.0.30319.1 on 64-bit Windows 7. It's still slow, and it occasionally becomes unresponsive for a minute or two, but it doesn't crash very often now.
If you're up-to-date, and it still crashes, I'd be very suspicious of all plugins.