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Visual Studio Uninstallation sometimes can be unreliable and often leave out a lot of unwanted artifacts. Visual Studio Uninstaller is designed to thoroughly and reliably remove these unwanted artifacts.
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Need to downgrade from VS2015.3 to VS2015.2 #42

Open AndrewJDR opened 8 years ago

AndrewJDR commented 8 years ago

I need to downgrade from VS2015 Update 3 to VS2015 Update 2.

I started out by using the built-in /uninstall /force flags on vs_professional.exe to uninstall VS2015.3. That succeeded, but when I ran the vs_professional.exe for VS2015 Update 2, it STILL listed "Update 3" as the top component in the custom installation area of the install wizard.

I presumed that some package was left behind on my system containing Update 3, and the VS2015.2 installer was finding this, so I downloaded the latest version of the VisualStudioUninstaller tool and ran it.

It took a while but seemed to go fine.

Unfortunately, though, when running the VS2015.2 installer, it STILL wants to install Update 3 :( So this seems like a bug.

Expectation: VisualStudioUninstaller should remove all traces of VS2015.3 such that one can install VS2015.2 without any existing VS2015.3 packages getting found on the system and installed. Reality: Even after running VisualStudioUninstaller, the VS2015.2 installer will still pick up the fact that VS2015.3 used to be on your system, and try to install it instead of installing VS2015.2.

jresch commented 8 years ago

Any progress on this? I have the same problem.

tobyhu87 commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Please follow our guidance document to install a specific version of Visual Studio Update.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt653628.aspx

thanks toby.

jresch commented 8 years ago

Thanks so much Toby! Trying it now!

andy-t-harrison commented 7 years ago

Thanks Toby. This solution worked for me. I hadn't previously installed VS2015 and needed to install Update 2 instead of Update 3, but the Update 2 ISO that I downloaded from MS wanted to install Update 3! The above link explained how to make it install a chosen update rather than the latest and it worked for me :-)