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Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services
Jesse Houwing 23 Nov, 2015
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If you, like me, are stuck trying to upgrade Visual Studio 2017, then you may only get unblocked by removing everything and starting afresh. Since Visual Studio 2017 is still in Release Candidate and not final, this is something we may have to deal with from time to time.
But when the “uninstall” button in the ui fails, you may end up stuck. In that case, you’ll be happy to find:
But when the “uninstall” button in the ui fails, you may end up stuck. In that case, you’ll be happy to find:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\installcleanup.exe
Which will perform the same actions as the good old “vssetup.exe /uninstall /force”. If that doesn’t get you unstuck, there is an even more forceful way:
Delete everything under:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages%appdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0*%appdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\PackagesC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0*
Jesse is a passionate trainer and coach, helping teams improve their productivity and quality all the while trying to keep work fun. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) through Scrum.org for the Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) and Developer (PSD .NET) programs. With a strong background in the .NET platform and C#, Jesse is able to translate the needs of development teams when it comes to tools to manage work, build the code and keep quality up. He has contributed to a number of open source products that extend – as well as supported commercial tools like NDepend in their integration into – Team Foundation Server. Jesse regularly blogs and contributes to numerous communities on StackExchange and MSDN networks, he has received the Microsoft Community Contributor Award three years in a row and has been recently been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award. He’s spoken at conferences and user groups, including the Microsoft TechDays and the Scrum Day Europe. Trainer certifications: Professional Scrum Foundations
Professional Scrum Master
Professional Scrum Developer (.NET)
Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)
Scaled Agile Program Consultant
In past years Jesse has delivered ALM, Test Automation and Scrum training all over the world, most recently in Sydney, Milan and Bangalore. He has redelivered materials from industry leading partners as well as developed his own. In addition to the previously mentioned subjects Jesse has taught courses on Visual Studio, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Design Patterns for C# developers, Unified Modelling languages and Regular Expressions. Jesse is married with Charlotte, recently became father of his first daughter and lives in a house that’s more than a century old in the beautiful city of Utrecht. He loves espresso and dark chocolate, travels a lot and takes photos everywhere he goes.