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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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Closed futagoza closed 8 years ago

futagoza commented 9 years ago

Is this project working?

I'm not sure if this is working because I'm having problems building any projects in Visual Studio which is why I want to remove it all (I have Visual Studio 2012 - 2015 installed, all Express editions and Community) and start a fresh install of Visual Studio 2015.

tobyhu87 commented 9 years ago

Hi futagoza,

What build error are you seeing? We can help you fix the problem.

thanks toby.

futagoza commented 9 years ago

1) Permission writing errors 2) MSBuild Visual Studio version errors

I'm guessing these problems cropped up because I had express edition's of Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2013 installed, had Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, and decided to upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and then resumed my C++/C# projects 2 months later, only to run into building issues.

I don't want to fix the issues now though, I want to:

1) Remove everything Visual Studio related 2) Install a fresh copy of Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition

I'de do it manually but removing everything one by one is getting tedious, especially when there seems to be so many extra programs its installed, so I gave up after 2 hours and have resumed using Sublime Text, for now :)

tobyhu87 commented 8 years ago

@futagoza Thank you for reporting this issue. I had review your issue and made the suggested change to the uninstaller. You can download and use the pre-built binaries directly. The usage is now different. It will no longer ask you to pass in configuration files, etc. You just run it and it will uninstall Visual Studio for you.

https://github.com/Microsoft/VisualStudioUninstaller/releases